All things related to multicast

[Greg Shepherd <>]

The University Multicast Interoperability Lab (UOMIL) was established
earlier this year to address just these issues. It's been slow going due
to the lack of PIM implementation. For more info, go to:

http:/uomil.uoregon.edu

Greg

On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, R. P. Channing Rodgers, M.D. wrote:

> 
> Lary et al.,
> 
> > From: "Lawrence A. Rowe" 
> > <>
> > 
> > Hi -
> > 
> 
> [...deletions...]
> > one of the problems we're facing now is that the multicast protocols are
> > changing and not all router vendors support them.
> [...deletions...]
> > Seems like there are several things we as a community might do.
>  
> > 1. Establish some sort of interoperability test center.  Perhaps someone
> > would like to setup a laboratory within which vendors can bring there
> > equipment to work out multicast problems.
> 
> This is a terrific idea -- but who and where and funded how?  Seems to
> me that this is the sort of thing that the IP Multicast Initiative
> (http://www.ipmulticast.com/) ought to support, or perhaps another group
> of major vendors, perhaps setting it up at and through a university.
> 
> > 2. We really need a way to deploy multicast. [...deletions...]
> > As far as I know, there is no PIM-SM/MGPD public domain software
> > implementation that we could deploy
> 
> [...deletions...]
> 
> > I suppose this comment is heresy, but comments?
> >     Larry
> > -- 
> > Professor Lawrence A. Rowe          Internet:  
> > 
> > Computer Science Division - EECS       Phone: 510-642-5117
> > University of California, Berkeley       Fax: 510-642-5615
> > Berkeley, CA 94720-1776            URL: http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/~larry
> 
> If it's heresy, you can plant my stake next to yours on the bonfire.
> Solutions to these issues are long overdue, and the lack of solutions
> is truly hindering a wider understanding of the virtues and potential
> of multicast technology.
> 
> Cheerio, Rick Rodgers
> 
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