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

Matti Aarnio matti.aarnio@sonera.fi
Fri May 28 13:13:29 1999


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>