On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 09:37 +0100, Måns Nilsson wrote:
Subject: Re: IPV6 in enterprise best practices/white papaers Date: Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 08:45:39PM +0400 Quoting Mukom Akong T. (mukom.tamon@gmail.com):
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Eugeniu Patrascu <eugen@imacandi.net>wrote:
Does an L2 switch really care about IPv6? (except for stuff like DHCPv6 snooping, etc?)
For management it does care. NO ipv4 is NO ipv4. As in not even management addresses.
Also, if a switch does not do MLD snooping, it will flood multicast to all ports. You lose one of the major benefits of IPv6 multicast - less admin traffic. You need to spec new switches with IPv6 capability. Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer (kauer@biplane.com.au) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://www.biplane.com.au/blog GPG fingerprint: B862 FB15 FE96 4961 BC62 1A40 6239 1208 9865 5F9A Old fingerprint: AE1D 4868 6420 AD9A A698 5251 1699 7B78 4EEE 6017