All things related to multicast

[David Meyer <>]

        Kevin,

        Can you put this up as .ps or html?

        Thanks,

        Dave

According to Kevin C. Almeroth:
> 
> 
> I wanted to do a longer, detailed description of events at the vBNS/NLANR
> Joint Techs meeting in Las Cruces this past week, but I'm running out
> of energy, so I'll do my best to just summarize what happened.
> 
> There were two meetings related to multicast.  The first was Sunday
> afternoon where we talked about peering relationships and the status
> of multicast in various networks.
> 
> Hugh LaMaster talked about NREN...  which is now running PIM-SM and
> is MSDP peering with the Ames MIX and vBNS in Chicago.  Randy Nicklas
> gave a presentation about vBNS.  They have also recently upgraded
> to PIM-SM and are MSDP peering with NREN and Merit, MBGP peering
> with 8 sites, and providing MBGP translation with 20 other sites.
> Steven Wallace talked about Abilene.  The story there is that they
> had a version of Cisco IOS deployed (12.0.2.7S) that had a
> point-to-multipoint bug in it so this weekend they are going to
> try upgrading the IOS to see if the problem fixes.  There is significant
> interest in moving rapidly to deploy multicast.  When multicast is
> deployed several additional networks including CA*Net 2/3,
> SURFnet, NREN, etc. are interested in MSDP peering.  The message is
> that even though we are running in to some problems, we are on the
> right track and should have native multicast deployed relatively
> soon.
> 
> I also gave a talk on Tuesday about the status of multicast and
> some problems/solutions to multi-homing multicast.  You can see
> the slides (if you are PPT capable) at:
> 
> http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~almeroth/publish/VBNS-NLANR:NM-99.ppt
> 
> The next likely time for a meeting will be April 28th in DC at
> the I2 member meeting.  I'll try to forward updates as they
> occur.
> 
> Finally, if people on the list have topics they are interested in
> discussing, please raise them.  Traffic on the list has been light 
> (which is not necessarily a bad thing), but worthy issues should
> definitely be raised.
> 
> -Kevin Almeroth
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