All things related to multicast

[Stig Venaas <>]

On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 03:00:23PM -0400, Bill Owens wrote:
[...]
> I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that NCREN isn't yet IPv6 
> multicast connected either natively to Abilene or via a tunnel to the 
> m6bone, so you can probably do things locally but not with anyone else. Of 
> course, that can probably be fixed, if there's sufficient will. At present 
> I have tunnels to the m6bone but am not native to Abilene. I'm not certain 
> what connectivity, if any, exists between Abilene and the m6bone. These and 
> other questions will be answered soon. . .

There is a native multicast peering between Abilene and GEANT. GEANT again
is connected to rest of M6Bone. So I believe at least SSM should work if
have IPv6 multicast connectivity to Abilene. As I said, I think SSM could
be tested as a first step.

Stig

> 
> Oh, and remember that v6 multicast traffic will probably flood your local 
> switch, unless you're using one of the few boxes that will do MLD snooping. 
> Not a big deal unless you have some ports at 10 Mbps, in which case running 
> a local DVTS session is an excellent way to find those ports and get them 
> fixed ;)
> 
> Bill.