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[Gordon Rogier <>]

On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, John Meylor wrote:
> but first I'll say that if a network runs in sparse mode I can't
> think of any reason to force a group into dense mode - I've never
> seen a valid reason for that, and the concept that it should be
> done to handle "bursty-sources" eg SAP is pre-mature at best,

thanks john.  you confirmed what i thought.  i agree that sparse should be
fine for all cases that i am aware of.  although i am concerned with the
lack of msdp state across the wide area in I2 for many mcast sources, even
to the point of lacking sdr announcer themself in msdp.  i suspect that
this is a result of these sources (inc. the sdr announcers) not being
advertised into msdp because of a far end dense mode network not being
proxied on correctly.  just a suspicion at best for the moment.

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