All things related to multicast

[Guy T Almes <>]

Alan,
 This was an interesting thread to review (after being snowed with admin 
work for a few days).  Thanks to all who contributed.
 As several noted, Kevin's original note really was about IPv6 Multicast. 
I hope his note gave all those on the list a sense of the issues and also a 
sense of the informative and energizing joint IPv6/Multicast WG meeting we 
had in Boulder ten days ago.

 On the topic of IPv6 SSM, it may be the case that (for a limited time) we 
can do without snooping and try broadcasting for those LANs where the 
Ethernet segments don't have too many hosts.  I wonder what the 
practicalities of that would be in the early days of IPv6.

 Regards,
       -- Guy

--On Wednesday, August 07, 2002 10:09:54 -0400 Alan Crosswell 
<> wrote:

> Can someone explain to me how one uses SSM to do something intrinsically
> easy for ASM:  discover the existence of unknown sources?
> /a