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IPv6 MLD Snooping Commands
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IPv6 MLD Snooping Commands
In IPv6, Multicast Listener Discover (MLD) snooping performs functions 
similar to IGMP snooping in IPv4. With MLD snooping, IPv6 multicast data 
is selectively forwarded to a list of ports that want to receive the data, instead 
of being flooded to all ports in a VLAN. This list is constructed by snooping 
IPv6 multicast control packets. 
MLD is a protocol used by IPv6 multicast routers to discover the presence of 
multicast listeners (nodes wishing to receive IPv6 multicast packets) on its 
directly-attached links and to discover which multicast packets are of interest 
to neighboring nodes. MLD is derived from IGMP. MLD version 1 (MLDv1) 
is equivalent to IGMPv2. MLD version 2 (MLDv2) is equivalent to IGMPv3. 
MLD is a subprotocol of Internet Control Message Protocol version 6 
(ICMPv6), and MLD messages are a subset of ICMPv6 messages, identified 
in IPv6 packets by a preceding Next Header value of 58.
PowerConnect switches can snoop on both MLDv1 and MLDv2 protocol 
packets and bridge IPv6 multicast data based on destination IPv6 Multicast 
MAC Addresses. The switch can be configured to perform MLD Snooping 
and IGMP Snooping simultaneously. The PowerConnect implementation is 
compliant to RFC 4541.
Commands in this Chapter
This chapter explains the following commands:
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