All things related to multicast

[Jimmy Kyriannis <>]

Alan's absolutely right - we're using Embedded RP for this multicast 
group.  As far as I know, this is either the first or among the first 
public uses of Embedded RP.  With it, we're able to bypass the need 
for a single centralized m6bone RP as well as the need for something 
to facilitate inter-RP communications like MSDP, in the IPv4 
multicast world.  As Alan has shown, the RP's address is embedded 
within the multicast group address, pointing routers within your 
local organization's network to our RP at NYU for receipt of the 
multicast traffic.


Jimmy

At 08:11 PM 2/17/2006, 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.
> /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!
> >