[Xorp-hackers] SSM/MLDv2 support

Piers O'Hanlon P.OHanlon@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:43:57 +0100


Pavlin,

> > I was just wondering what the status was on MLDv2 and SSM IPv6?
> 
> The PIM-SM implementation already supports SSM.
> The IGMPv3/MLDv2 implementation hasn't been started yet.
> In other words, currently you can use XORP as an intermediate SSM
> router (i.e., as long as it doesn't have directly-connected SSM
> members).
> 
Thanks for getting back to me. I wondered if Xorp had been tested on Linux-2.6.7+ with Micheal Hoerdt's new forwarding code: 
http://clarinet.u-strasbg.fr/~hoerdt/linux_ipv6_mforwarding/

Also any ideas if/when MLDv2 implementation will start?

Thanks again,

Piers.