[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
(usagi-users 02923) Re: IPv6 Multicast on recent Linux Kernels
In article <20040421065929.GA7866@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (at Wed, 21 Apr 2004 08:59:29 +0200), Stig Venaas <Stig.Venaas@xxxxxxxxxx> says:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 02:46:40PM +0900, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@ wrote:
> > In article <OF632B4C9E.CE204BC4-ON88256E7D.001B4C0D-88256E7D.001B7716@xxxxxxxxxx> (at Tue, 20 Apr 2004 22:59:58 -0600), David Stevens <dlstevens@xxxxxxxxxx> says:
> >
> > > A multicast router should not be needed if you're talking about
> > > groups that should be forwarded by the HA, but I don't think
> > > that'll work with or without a multicast router right now.
> >
> > Multicast router SHOULD be required to "forward" multicast packets.
>
> There are two implementations for IPv6, one written for exactly this
> purpose, of so called MLD/IGMP proxies. In addition to just proxying
> the MLD/IGMP, they also forward packets on the interfaces the joins
> came from. They are both user space implementations. They could
"Proxy"ing and "Forward"ing are different.
--yoshfuji