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[Tsegreda Beyene <>]

draft-savola-mboned-mcast-rpaddr..sorry forgot to add the draft.

Tsege


At 10:04 AM 4/1/2004 -0500, Tsegreda Beyene wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Embedded RP  is viable solution for applications who cannot leverage SSM 
> .  It uses the the 3 out 4 flag bits to indicate the rp address is 
> embedded in the group address..ie RPT flags are set to 1.
> Please let me know if you need further information wrt cisco's implementation.
>
> Thanks
> Tsege
>
>
>
> At 09:35 AM 4/1/2004 -0500, Michael H. Lambert wrote:
> > My understanding is that Abilene does plan to run an RP on one of the 
> > core routers.
> >
> > Could someone please summarize embedded-RP to the list so that those of 
> > us who haven't been paying any attention to IETF multicast efforts will 
> > gain some clew?
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > On 1 Apr 2004, at 09:29, Bill Owens wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 06:06:15AM -0800, Kevin C. Almeroth wrote:
> > > > The policy at this point is that Abilene isn't going
> > > > to run RPs or MSDP (peers) in the core routers for IPv6.
> > > > This doesn't preclude campuses from doing something
> > > > different but campuses should support IPv6 SSM.
> > >
> > > That sounds like a plan, though I think that embdedded-RP will likely 
> > > play a role as well. Although Abilene could run a v6 RP, of course 
> > > there's no choice to run MSDPv6 because there is no MSDPv6. 
> > > Unfortunately the Abilene core routers don't support embedded-RP, but 
> > > that's not suprising since it is still just a draft. I do expect that 
> > > *someone* will continue to run a global RP, and probably one for v4-v6 
> > > conversion, even after we transition to native v6 multicast.
> > >
> > > Bill.