All things related to multicast

[(Kevin C. Almeroth)]

>>  IGMP-snooping may be a key for those of us with tree topologies
>>that have layer 3 switches and routers at the core and
>>multi-vendor, switched layer 2 underneath.  If you do get vendor
>>deployment information, that would be helpful.

Most switch vendors support IGMP-snooping...  at this point, you
need to ask if you buy new equipment, and basically, don't buy
anything that doesn't support it.

>>  If would also be *very* helpful to have reason to believe that
>>these new standards based features actually interoperate across
>>vendors.  Any chance of I2 holding a bakeoff?  VIDe interested?

Done...  well, sort of.  Greg Shepherd at University of Oregon and
I have already contacted some vendors about putting together some
tests and eventually a bakeoff.  So far, I've contacted reps
from 3Com, Nortel, Cisco, and IBM about this...  I've only contacted
these four because those were the people I ran into into in
Las Cruces.  I will be contacting others.  Greg and I will put
together a white paper describing what we want to do.

-Kevin