All things related to multicast

[Gordon Rogier <>]

i have a generic question about this subject.  if a mcast domain
runs a specific group as truely dense locally (by not defining an RP
for the group address), does this prevent msdp from being aware of an
active source (thereby preventing the needed SA message from being
generated)?  if so, it would seem that almost all groups in the wide area
would need to be supported as sparse in the local domain.

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Gordon Rogier                        

            
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On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Kevin C. Almeroth wrote:

> (I sent this to JUST 
> 
>  since all
> the folks I know who are involved in this discussion are
> on this list.)
> 
> 
> Well, I've been not paying attention to email for a few days
> (Rincon fire almost claimed to-be parents-in-law house (things
> are 99.9% fine)).
> 
> Based on the fragments of messages I've been getting I think
> it should be noted that SOME folks run SAP over dense. 
> 
> (For anyone that doesn't know, there was a question whether
> the transport of SAP messages should be done via dense mode.)
> 
> Does I2 need to even recognize that this is happening?  Does it
> help someone connected to I2 to know that some folks carry
> sap.mcast.net via dense?
> 
> -Kevin
> 
>