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

[Stig Venaas]

Hi

On 9/22/2014 2:41 PM, Sander Steffann wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
>> 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.

Aren't the existing documents sufficient? See

RFC 4541
RFC 4605

and also this is related
draft-ietf-pim-explicit-tracking-10

Stig

>> 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 ?
>
> Maybe it's as simple as writing down what you described :)  Standards don't have to be complicated. Maybe it can describe how a device should operate in certain failure scenarios like when 1000 hosts join 500 multicast groups each and the switch runs out of memory/CPU/etc. The most 'interesting' interoperability problems occur when different devices behave in different ways in weird situations :)
>
> And maybe it is just as simple as you describe :)
>
> Cheers,
> Sander
>