Re: New draft on embedding the RP address in IPv6 multicast address

[Bill Nickless <nickless@mcs.anl.gov>]

At 09:31 PM 10/16/2002 +0300, Pekka Savola wrote:
> No: most switches by far work *just* fine.
>
> Only if you want snooping features, or the switch uses a broken logic (see
> the issues draft) you have problems..
Well over a year ago we ran into situations where a normal Access Grid 
traffic would overrun a 10 megabit/sec switch port.  At the time the hosts 
were listening to RIP broadcasts to learn their default route.  The 
congestion on those 10 megabit/sec switch ports was *SO* bad that the hosts 
lost their RIP default route.

Darn right I want packets on a segment to only go to the appropriate output 
ports.  If I wanted a single collision domain I wouldn't buy a switch.


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