Do we ever want to bind more than 8 multicast MAC addresses?

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Fri Apr 18 12:11:42 EDT 2008


On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 12:08 -0400, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote:
> Dynamic mapping from a single 6-byte address to multiple 16-byte 
> addresses? 

The other way round. Given an IPv6 multicast address, there exists a MAC
address associated with that IPv6 address. When we join the multicast
group, we tell the device that we want to receive packets addressed to
that MAC address.

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dwmw2




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