All things related to multicast

[Bill Owens <>]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 08:11:58PM -0500, Alan Crosswell wrote:
> 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.

Alan gets a grade of 100% on the workshop final exam ;) For extra credit, 
which RFC did Jimmy use to create the other part of the group address?

We've previously played with ff1e global groups, but decided that since the 
global RP is clearly not the long-term answer, embedded-RP would be the best 
choice. Unfortunately the folks who are connected through GEANT, and by 
extension through one of RENATER's tunnels, can't yet use embedded-RP to 
reach this source. The latest word from DANTE is to look for it in their 
routers sometime in April.

Bill.