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.\" Copyright (c) 2009 Bruce Simpson.
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.Dd April 8, 2013
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.Dt MLD 4
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm mld
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.Nd Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In sys/types.h
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.In sys/socket.h
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.In netinet/in.h
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.In netinet/in_systm.h
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.In netinet/ip6.h
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.In netinet/icmp6.h
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.In netinet6/mld6.h
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.Ft int
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.Fn socket AF_INET6 SOCK_RAW IPPROTO_ICMPV6
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Tn MLD
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is a control plane protocol used by IPv6 hosts and routers to
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propagate multicast group membership information.
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Normally this protocol is not used directly, except by the kernel
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itself, in response to multicast membership requests by user
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applications.
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Multicast routing protocol daemons may open a raw socket to directly
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interact with
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.Nm
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and receive membership reports.
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.Pp
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As of
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.Fx 8.0 ,
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MLD version 2 is implemented.
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This adds support for Source-Specific Multicast (SSM), whereby
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applications may communicate to upstream multicast routers that
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they are only interested in receiving multicast streams from
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particular sources.
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The retransmission of state-change reports adds some robustness
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to the protocol.
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.\"
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.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES
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.Bl -tag -width indent
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.\"
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.It net.inet6.mld.ifinfo
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This opaque read-only variable exposes the per-link MLDv2 status to
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.Xr ifmcstat 8 .
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.\"
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.It net.inet6.mld.gsrdelay
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This variable specifies the time threshold, in seconds, for processing
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Group-and-Source Specific Queries (GSR).
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As GSR query processing requires maintaining state on the host,
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it may cause memory to be allocated, and is therefore a potential
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attack point for Denial-of-Service (DoS).
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If more than one GSR query is received within this threshold,
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it will be dropped, to mitigate the potential for DoS.
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.\"
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.It net.inet6.mld.v1enable
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If this variable is non-zero, then MLDv1 membership queries (and host
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reports) will be processed by this host, and backwards compatibility
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will be enabled until the v1 'Older Version Querier Present' timer expires.
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This sysctl is normally enabled by default.
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.\"
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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2013-04-08 10:53:22 +00:00
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.Xr netstat 1 ,
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.Xr sourcefilter 3 ,
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.Xr icmp6 4 ,
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.Xr inet 4 ,
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.Xr multicast 4 ,
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.Xr ifmcstat 8
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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manual page appeared in
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.Fx 8.0 .
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