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Re: igmp snooping?

To: Jonathan Day <imipak@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: igmp snooping?
From: jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 09:43:41 -0400
Cc: David Stevens <dlstevens@xxxxxxxxxx>, Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Wed, 2005-18-05 at 22:09 -0700, Jonathan Day wrote:
> mentation-dependent.
> 
> Now, in 99.99% of all cases, you're not going to have
> any significant IGMPv3 traffic, as barely anyone uses
> it yet and IGMP specifies that the highest common
> version will be used in a group. 

A significant amount of video type apps that i have seen lately
try to use IGMPv3 and then fallback to IGMPv2. I think that this may be
aggravated due to our friends at MS discovering IGMPv3.

cheers,
jamal



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