Too-frequent change of privacy address / ND monitoring

Daniel Roesen dr at cluenet.de
Mon Apr 1 00:56:07 CEST 2013


On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 02:57:20AM -0300, Fernando Gont wrote:
> > Totally random crazy idea: could there be firewalls on some of these
> > machines that are causing multicast RAs to be filtered but unicast RAs
> > are fine (e.g. a unicast RA reply to an RS)?  
> 
> Not sure if "firewalls", but I could think of swtiches that fail to do
> MLD snoping and hence do not forward multicasted packets?

Switches not performing MLD will just flood multicast packets just like
broadcast. I'm not sure that this is codified anywhere, but I certainly
didn't see anything else yet.

Best regards,
Daniel

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