All things related to multicast

[Bill Nickless <>]

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At 03:20 PM 7/9/2003 -0700, Keyur Patel wrote:

>Single signaling infrastructure should work for SSM and ASM model. One 
>could use well known anycast address to direct all the control traffic to 
>a specific location within a network.
>
>-Keyur

...or towards an IPv6 embedded RP address.  (Hi Pakkola!)

Earlier, Lenny wrote:

>Making the source host a tunnel endpoint is already supported.  This is
>called unicast.

Yes, at Layer 3.  But not at Layer 4 and higher.  The people I work with 
care about Layer 4 (and above).  More generally, I predict that enabling 
the Layer 4 service will drive deployment at Layer 3 and below.

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