All things related to multicast

[John Meylor <>]

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.

btw, this is nat for our dhcp (and static) hosts which may
pull from non-routable space.  We use the native global
mcast from Sprintlink and ios mcast nat at our border which 
allows global mcast to both routable and non-routable cisco
hosts.

 john

 
> 
> thanks
> --prashant
> 
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