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  • From: Tsegreda Beyene <>
  • To: "Michael H. Lambert" <>,
  • Subject: Re: Inter-domain IPv6 multicast
  • Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 10:13:43 -0500

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.




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