All things related to multicast

[Stig Venaas <>]

Tim Chown wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 01:34:32AM -0500, Jimmy Kyriannis wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
>
> Hi Jimmy,
>
> This is great to see :)

Indeed :)

Hope to see more IPv6 multicast usage from those who attended the 
workshop ;) And of course everyone else as well.

There have been some public streams using embedded-RP before, however as 
Tim says, there are unfortunately some places where it isn't enabled yet.

Embedded-RP is the only scalable way of doing interdomain IPv6 multicast 
 in addition to SSM. SSM would be a good solution for streaming. There 
are still only a few applications that support SSM (very latest version 
of vlc does) though, while embedded-RP requires no application support. 
There is also the problem of some systems and network equipment not 
supporting MLDv2.

Stig