[c-nsp] 3650G Port security and multicast.

A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk
Mon Feb 25 17:30:08 EST 2008


Hi,

> Neighbour discovery ("the thing that replaces ARP") and router advertisement /
> router discovery all use multicast.
> 
> There is no broadcast in IPv6 anymore, it has been completely replaced by
> job specific multicast groups.

many thanks for the explanation - I'll now have to have a look at 
some nets that I've got which dont have multicast enabled but
are happily doing IPv6 - i'm slightly confused!  :-)

alan


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