Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 00:35:25 +0900 From: JINMEI Tatuya / =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCP0BMQEMjOkgbKEI=?= <jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp> To: raviprasad20@netscape.net Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: all router address "ff02::02" Message-ID: <y7vvgj1hagy.wl@condor.jinmei.org> In-Reply-To: <279FE9BB.0AB663C0.9513E96F@netscape.net> References: <279FE9BB.0AB663C0.9513E96F@netscape.net>
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>>>>> On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 07:51:03 -0400, >>>>> raviprasad20@netscape.net said: > I found that in the rtadvd daemon code there is a function which is called to join to the all router multicast address( ff02::02). > My doubt is if rtadvd is disabled for a router then whether it will join the all routers multicast list? > one reason i find for such a implementation is that joining the all router multicast address (ff02::02) is useless for a router if it is not running rtadvd. > Is my understanding correct? or is the router joins the all router multicast address at some other place other than rtadvd? In the KAME's implementation, (which is base code of FreeBSD), applications that have to join the all-routers multicast group join on their own. rtadvd, pim6dd and pim6sd are examples of such applications. JINMEI, Tatuya Communication Platform Lab. Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp. jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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