[c-nsp] Layer2 Switch Recommendations

[Dale W. Carder]

Thus spake Steve Snodgrass (ssnodgra at pheran.com) on Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 11:44:14AM -0400:
> > - I don't exactly know how hardware forwarding on switches work, but I'd
> > like something that'll work with IPv6 in hardware when it's deployed.
> > I'm assuming this doesn't matter for L2 as it would for L3.
> 
> The IPv6 requirement
> is irrelevant if you only care about layer 2.

But you do want MLD (preferably version 2) snooping for IPv6.

Dale

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Dale W. Carder - Network Engineer
University of Wisconsin at Madison
http://net.doit.wisc.edu/~dwcarder