[rbridge] When would an RBridge say "I don't want layer 2 multicast"?

James Carlson james.d.carlson at sun.com
Thu Jun 11 08:02:18 PDT 2009


Dinesh G Dutt writes:
> I checked and we don't need this bit. It was something that was put in 
> for use in a network where MMRP was widely deployed, kind of thing. But 
> as you pointed out, we can prune multicast effectively using the normal 
> multicast pruning and don't need this bit.

... and I'm happy with or without the bit.  It's not important.

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