Re: Intel EtherExpress Pro Transmitter crash with 2.2.9 (Ipv6 related?)

Matti Aarnio (matti.aarnio@sonera.fi)
Fri, 28 May 1999 20:12:30 +0300

On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 11:10:38PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
...
> So IPv6 somehow does something with multicast? We are certainly not doing
> anything directly with it..

All IPv6 link-state things, like neighbour discovery, are done with
multicast messages. Where IPv4 used BROADCAST for things like ARP,
IPv6 does Neighbourg Discovery with multicast.

Unless you MUST/WANT run IPv6 at that remote site, don't enable it
at the compilation.

> Thanks,
> Jason

/Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@sonera.fi>
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