wake on lan / wol with linux in IPv6-LAN (without IPv4)

Andrew 👽 Yourtchenko ayourtch at gmail.com
Mon Sep 22 18:44:11 CEST 2014


On 9/21/14, Sander Steffann <sander at steffann.nl> wrote:
> Hi Mikael,
>
> Op 21 sep. 2014, om 07:45 heeft Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike at swm.pp.se> het
> volgende geschreven:
>> On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, Enno Rey wrote:
>>
>>> it should be noted that RFC 4541 is an "Informational" one and I don't
>>> think any normative value for a kind-of vendor-proprietary thing called
>>> "MLD snooping" might be attached to it ;-)
>>
>> I would like to see IGMP and MLD snooping properly standardized.
>
> Big +1

Please help me understand.

The standards' purpose is to facilitate the interoperability.

"MLD snooping" happens within a single device.

Its only result in a correct implementation must be "if you join the
group, you should get the traffic, if you did not, you should not"
function.

A result of composition of multiple independent correct
implementations of this function remains the same - "if you join the
group, you should get the traffic, if you did not, you should not".

So, which undefined behaviors that prevent the interop today do you
think would need to be standardized ?

--a



> Sander
>
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