Multicast Listener Discovery Version 2 (MLDv2) for IPv6

By Rolland Vida, L. Costa. Request for Comments, 2004

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This document specifies Version 2 of the Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol, MLDv2. MLD is the protocol used by an IPv6 router to discover the presence of multicast listeners (that is, nodes wishing to receive multicast packets) on its directly attached links, and to discover specifically which multicast addresses are of interest to those neighboring nodes. MLDv2 is derived from version 3 of IPv4's Internet Group Management Protocol, IGMPv3. Compared to the previous version, MLDv2 adds support for "source filtering", that is, the ability for a node to report interest in listening to packets *only* from specific source addresses, or from *all but* specific source addresses, sent to a particular multicast address. This document obsoletes RFC 2710.

Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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