All things related to multicast

[Greg Shepherd <>]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, David Meyer wrote:

> > >>>** 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?

..or is unable to rate-limit per flow.

Greg
 
>       Dave
> 
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