[rbridge] Fwd: DISCUSS and COMMENT: draft-ietf-trill-rbridge-protocol

[Donald Eastlake]

See below,

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Erik Nordmark <erik.nordmark at sun.com>wrote:
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: DISCUSS and COMMENT: draft-ietf-trill-rbridge-protocol
> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:24:05 -0800 (PST)
> From: Pasi Eronen <pasi.eronen at nokia.com>
> To: iesg at ietf.org
> CC: trill-chairs at tools.ietf.org,
> draft-ietf-trill-rbridge-protocol at tools.ietf.org
>
> Discuss:
> I have reviewed draft-ietf-trill-rbridge-protocol-14, and have one
> questions that I'd like to discuss before recommending approval of
> the document:
>
> Section 4.7 says "RBridges do not need to announce themselves as
> listeners to the All-Snoopers multicast group (the group used for MRD
> reports [RFC4541]), because the IP multicast address for that group is
> in the range where all frames sent to that IP multicast addresses must
> be broadcast."
>
> Isn't this true only for IPv4, but not IPv6? (RFC 4541 seems to
> broadcast 224.0.0.106, but not FF02::6A)
>


I've looked at the relevant RFCs and I believe Pasi is correct. It should
say something like

"RBridges does not need to announce themselves as listeners to the IPv4
All-Snoopers multicast group (the group used for MRD reports [RFC4541]),
because the IPv4 multicast address for that group is in the range where all
frames sent to that IP multicast addresses must be broadcast. However,
RBridges the implement IPv6 derived multicast optimization MUST announce
themselves as listeners to the IPv6 All-Snoopers multicast group."

Does any have a problem with that wording?


> Comment:
> I found the document surprisingly well-written and easy to
> understand (despite the complex topic).
>

Thanks,
Donald
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