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rfc-6085

Address Mapping of IPv6 Multicast Packets on Ethernet

S. Gundavelli, M. Townsley, O. Troan, W. Dec
date2011-01 streamIETF wgnon working group statusPROPOSED STANDARD pages3 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6085 doi10.17487/RFC6085
When transmitting an IPv6 packet with a multicast destination address, the IPv6 destination address is mapped to an Ethernet link-layer multicast address. This document clarifies that a mapping of an IPv6 packet with a multicast destination address may in some circumstances map to an Ethernet link-layer unicast address. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

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