[c-nsp] Microsoft multicasted cluster vs. Cisco IOS

Arnold Nipper arnold at nipper.de
Mon Nov 7 13:23:00 EST 2005


On 07.11.2005 15:30 Niels Bakker wrote

> Cisco routers won't enter MAC addresses with the multicast bit set into 
> their ARP tables.  Foundry routers and Linux hosts will, I believe 
> Force10 will too.  JunOS won't.
> 

This rfc-compliant (1812). Isn't it?

    A router MUST not believe any ARP reply that claims that the Link
    Layer address of another host or router is a broadcast or multicast
    address.




Arnold
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