All things related to multicast

[David Meyer <>]

> >>>** How do we keep commodity Internet sites from joining  **
> >>>** high-bandwidth I2 streams?                            **
> >>
> >>Why do you want to?  If it's to protect them from themselves, then I
> >>think you're wasting your time, since people already have a million
> >>ways to shoot themselves in the foot.
> 
> Well, there will be AT LEAST a rate limit to protect the
> border from too much traffic.

        Please explain.

> The problem is if I have a single high bit-rate multicast
> stream clogging up the multicast portion then all the
> folks (like Larry Rowe) who are sending high bit-rate
> streams and low bit-rate streams will have both their
> streams clobbered.
> 
> So, the idea is to protect the folks who are sending
> low bit-rate streams from an I2 site destined potentially
> for commodity Internet sites not to experience lots
> of loss at the I2/commodity border.

        So the problem is with the router not being
        able to fast drop packets?

        Dave