[Xorp-hackers] SSM/MLDv2 support

Pavlin Radoslavov pavlin@icir.org
Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:35:52 -0700


> > > 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/

Testing it is on my TODO list, but so far I didn't have the time to
test it. Has anyone tried it already?

> Also any ideas if/when MLDv2 implementation will start?

So far the plan is to do this early next year.

Regards,
Pavlin