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  • From: Marshall Eubanks <>
  • To: Prashant Rajvaidya <>
  • Cc: , James Martin <>, Richard Mavrogeanes <>, , , , , Ileana Landon <>,
  • Subject: Re: Large Multicast Audience
  • Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 19:00:15 -0400
  • Organization: Multicast Technologies

Prashant Rajvaidya wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Tim Ward wrote:
>
> > Seems like a big chunk of our audience was cisco!
>
> following is a name lookup for one of these hosts (64.102.93.145):
> dhcp-64-102-93-145.cisco.com
>
> the last non-cisco, unicast hop to this host is a SPRINTLINK node.
>
> my (wild) guess is that CISCO and/or Sprint is proxying for some external
> (non-cisco) networks and/or acting as multicast service provider.
>
> can some one please confirm what is the going on.
>
> thanks
> --prashant
>
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Cisco MBGP homes to Sprint as seen from here.
That's the ONLY mbgp path to cisco from as 16517

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Marshall Eubanks



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