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Re: [16NG] Re: multicast and IPv6 over ETHCS

Alexandru Petrescu <alexandru.petrescu@motorola.com> Wed, 17 January 2007 17:23 UTC

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Subject: Re: [16NG] Re: multicast and IPv6 over ETHCS
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Basavaraj Patil wrote:
> Alex,
> 
> Let me pick on just one comment that you made on this thread:
> 
> 
> On 1/17/07 10:50 AM, "ext Alexandru Petrescu" 
> <alexandru.petrescu@motorola.com> wrote:
> 
>> The only problem I'm aware of is that IPv6 prefers the link-layer
>> to be multicast capable.
>> 
> 
> IPv6 is designed to work on many different types of links. It was not
>  designed to work just on mutlicast capable links as your sentence
> implies.

I meant links with link-layer headers.

Reading ND it says "node MUST join" before receiving an RA.  'Join' can
happen only if that link is multicast-capable.

In practice IPv6 runs even over RS-232,  I've tried, but no conformant
ND runs on that.

Alex

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