All things related to multicast

[Alan Crosswell <>]

Let's see if I remember my v6 multicast workshop.  It's been a week:
The address starts with ff7e, flags=7 means embedded RP.  The RP address
is 2001:468:914:FDFF::2, which is Jimmy's RP at NYU.
/a

hans wrote:
> Hi Bob
> 
> Could you give us more detail of how they are sending the streaming like
> if they are using the RP of M6bone or if Abilene has his own RP.
> 
> Best Regards
> -Hans
> 
> Bob Riddle wrote:
>> New York University is now streaming mpeg2 content, viewable with the
>> videolan client (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/) , using an IPv6
>> multicast address - ff7e:240:2001:468:914:FDFF:8000:5
>>
>> If you're on a IPv6 multicast capable network, and you're connected to
>> Abilene, you can view the content!  If you're not on an IPv6 multicast
>> enabled network ... you can be (ask, we'll help!)
>>
>> Kudos to the NYU folks!
>