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[Tom Pusateri <>]

I hope there is an error here.

Nobody should be filtering SSM (232/8) at their borders.

Tom

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edu> you write:
>Funny you should ask.  I just ran accross it in:
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>http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mboned-ipv4-mcast-bcp-00.txt
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>Part of this near the bottom lists some groups to filter and this is included
>and said to be Altiris.
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>  224.0.1.2/32:      SGI Dogfight game and related services
>   224.0.1.3/32:      RWHOD
>   224.0.1.8/32:      Suns NIS+
>   224.0.1.22/32:     SVRLOC
>   224.0.1.24/32:     MICROSOFT-DS
>   224.0.1.25/32
>   224.0.1.35/32:     SVRLOC-DA
>   224.0.1.39/32:     Ciscos Rendezvous Point Announcement Protocol
>   224.0.1.40/32:     Ciscos Rendezvous Point Discovery Protocol
>   224.0.1.60/32:     HPs Device Discovery Protocol
>   224.0.2.1/32:      rwho group (BSD)
>   224.0.2.2/32:      Suns Remote Procedure Call Protocol
>   225.1.2.3/32:      Altiris
>   229.55.150.208/32: Norton Ghost disk duplication software
>   232.0.0.0/8:       Source-Specific Multicast
>   234.42.42.42/30:   ImageCast
>   239.0.0.0/8:       Administratively Scoped IPv4 Group Addresses
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>I've been filtering 225.1.2.3 for a while with no ill-effects.
>
>Amel
>
>On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Alan Crosswell wrote:
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>>>Do you know what group 225.1.2.3 is for?  I was snooping around some WWW 
>>>sit
>es
>>I think it's just people picking a number at random.  Avoid 224.* 'cuz many
>>of those are well known, so start with 225 and then do 1.2.3.
>>/a
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