Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-6man-ipv6only-flag-03.txt

sthaug@nethelp.no Mon, 22 October 2018 04:35 UTC

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> Wait, are you saying that no switches contain ARP caches? That would
> truly surprise me.

A managed switch normally contains an ARP cache used for the management
IP. It doesn't contain an ARP cache for the other L2 traffic through
the switch.

Steinar Haug, AS2116