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[Alan Crosswell <>]

I would settle for a directory of test SSM sources so I can test my SSM 
deployment which so far has been a big failure due to Cisco CGMP switches.
/a

Kevin C. Almeroth wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Hitoshi Asaeda wrote:
>
>
> > > Does anyone know papaers/links/presentations describing "how SSM is
> > > deployed in the Internet", including the measurement of the num of SSM
> > > services/traffic etc.?
> > > Statistical issue would be great.
>
>
> I don't know of anything...  it would be tough to measure...  in my
> mind, SSM is defined as edge routers speaking IGMPv3 and hosts speaking
> IGMPv3.  Sort of hard to measure unless one has a collection point in
> every LAN.
>
> If anyone has any good ideas on how to measure this, I'm up for it.
> For example, collect stats from SSM sources on who actually joins,
> but this has its weaknesses too.
>
> -Kevin