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by ikekkdcjkfke 877 days ago
How do the switches handle potentially that many addressess?
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Non–multicast-aware switches don't care; there aren't any additional unicast MAC addresses on the wire. Multicast-aware switches will incur multicast table growth, except in cases where multiple addresses on the same host share the same final 24 bits, which will cause them to share the same solicited-node multicast address (and therefore the same multicast MAC).