All things related to multicast

[Bill Nickless <>]

At 07:51 PM 6/10/2001 -0700, Toerless Eckert wrote:

>      Multi-VLAN/Multicast MIX setup model:
>      -------------------------------------
>      For each party in the MIX there is one Multicast VLAN. The party
>      who owns the VLAN has an MBGP/MSDP speaker on this VLAN and announces
>      his prefixes/sources out this router (let's call it the owner-peer).
>      This owner-peer does ignore all prefix/source announcements that he
>      may receive from peerings established across this VLAN.

Very interesting concept--thank you.

How would an exchange point handle addressing?  If an exchange point was 
planning for(say) 50 multicast participants, would the exchange point give 
each participant a /26 for its Multicast VLAN ?

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