wake on lan / wol with linux in IPv6-LAN (without IPv4)
Ignatios Souvatzis
ignatios at cs.uni-bonn.de
Wed Sep 17 11:59:55 CEST 2014
Hi,
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 10:14:31AM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> So, one interpretation would be that if the device hasn't subscribed to the
> "all IPv6 nodes" multicast group, it's not an IPv6 node, and shouldn't
> receive the traffic.
Uh, no.
the link-local stuff must never be snooped and blocked, because it is
used to implement neighbour discovery and multicast routing protocols,
multicast group managment etc.
I think there's explicit wording for this - at least for the low /112 -
somehwere.
-is
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