Simplifying IPv6 MLD Snooping Switches
draft-pashby-magma-simplify-mld-snooping-01
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| Author | Ronald Pashby | ||
| Last updated | 2006-04-12 | ||
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| Consensus boilerplate | Unknown | ||
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| IESG | IESG state | Expired | |
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Abstract
The purpose of this draft is to simplify the design of MLD Snooping switches and provide a method for Solicited Node multicast addresses to be sent to every port to improve network robustment and management. IPv6 Addressing Architecture requires that all nodes must join the associated Solicited-Node multicast addresses for every unicast and anycast address it is assigned. This causes MLD snooping switches to create potentially huge multicast forwarding tables just to handle Neighbor Discovery. A simple change to alleviate this would be to allow switches to forward a range of addresses that include the Solicited-Node multicast addresses to every port. This also could help in network discovery. Similarly the same allowance could be made for Local Network Control Block (LNCB) addresses.
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