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



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 at 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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