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(usagi-users 01880) switch problems with multicast ethernet packets?



Hi,

after trying the ipv6 code of the plain linux kernel,
I found a problem of my local ethernet switch (cheap one).

The neighbor solicitation is based on multicast ethernet
packets (33:33:xx:xx:xx:xx), but my switch doesn't seem
to handle such packets properly. Experiments with 
plain ipv4 udp packets showed that the switch forwards
packets to 00: and to broadcast ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff correctly,
but in most cases drops packets to addresses with other
prefixes, e.g. 33: 

Has anyone else experienced such problems?

regards
Hadmut