On Jun 14, 2011, at 1:30 PM, Ricky Beam wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 04:00:22 -0400, Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com> wrote: >> You would need an AWFUL lot of hosts for this to add up to a few 100pps (or >> even 10pps) of multicast traffic. > > You're missing the point... most WAPs are horrible with multicast. It > doesn't matter if it's v4 or v6, at L2, multicast is multicast. > > At 100pps the WAP disappears from the network. "It's dead, Jim!" In many > cases, a single multicast packet is enough to disrupt traffic flow as the AP > stops to fire the multicast frame, individually, at each associated peer. > > As others have pointed out, IPv6 uses multicast all over the place. DHCPv6 > is just one of many sources. > > All we're saying is DHCPv6 should be like DHCPv4... have a backoff period and > eventually give up entirely. (yes, there are v4 agents that continue to try, > i.e. restart every 5min, etc.)
Dude... I said that from the beginning. Point is that DHCPv6 isn't going to be the thing that pushes your AP over the edge. Owen
