All things related to multicast

[Marshall Eubanks <>]

Brent Sweeny wrote:

> i know for a fact that some people have turned off multicast peering until
> this problem is manageable or cleared up--just talked with another one (not
> an Abilene user) this morning.    Brent Sweeny/ Abilene
>

Brent;

   How are we going to recover from this mess ? What annoucement
will suffice to say that the problem is managable ?

- I suspect that RAMEN will be showing up off and on for months.
Waiting for it to go away is not a good option.

- We have had good apparent results with our rate limits. Of course, it
could be that we are rejecting good MSDP SA's - but these should be
cached from before storms.

So, should there be a general announcement that the problem is
manageable ? Should it go to nanog and inet-access in addition to
these lists ? Or is this premature ?

Another question :

Would it be useful to set a operational multicasting mailing list ?
(To deal with things like attacks, etc - like NANOG, but for multicasters.)
So far we have

- wg-multicast - Internet 2 limited access list, with a heavy operational 
content
- mboned         - commodity internet list with research, IETF and 
operational content
- Ip multicast  - mostly "newbie" type questions.

None of these seem like perfect matches for questions of this nature.
A new mail list, of course, would take time to develop an audience.

Marshall

>
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:02:45AM -0800, Bill Fenner wrote:
> >
> > >So, although I have received NO reports of people taking multicast off 
> > >the
> > >air because of the storms, I strongly suspect that this has indeed 
> > >happened.
> >
> > Equally likely is that MSDP is breaking due to the rate limits and other
> > "fixes" that people have installed.
> >
> >   Bill

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