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

Alexandru Petrescu <alexandru.petrescu@motorola.com> Thu, 18 January 2007 11:25 UTC

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Subject: [16NG] Re: flloding multicast and IPv6 over ETHCS
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Jihoon Lee wrote:
> Gabriel,
> 
>> Notice that if a link layer simply floods all multicast packets 
>> (essentially  using broadcast), things work fine.
> 
> Let's focus on the main issue. As I know, we started to discuss this 
> problem, because of the lack of flooding function (surely including 
> multicast) between MSs (uplink) in 802.16 MAC layer. So, we're trying
> to discuss this problem regarding IPv6overETHCS.

I think for IPv6, 'flooding' means sending to the link-layer multicast
address 33:33::1.  Do you agree?  Do you think there's another
link-layer multicast address that does this flooding?

Alex


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