All things related to multicast

[Bill Owens <>]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 11:54:23AM -0600, hans wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> Thanks for your responces, and as your are using a diferent RP, it is 
> going to be a problem to get any streaming from USA because inside of 
> CUDI and CLARA, we are using the RP of Renater and I'm not sure how many 
> people are using embedded-RP.

At this moment, CUDI is connected to the global v6 multicast network through 
the m6bone, via a tunnel to RENATER. Since RENATER is in turn connected (via 
tunnel) to GEANT, we cannot use embedded-RP from one side to the other. You 
could, if you wanted, pursue getting embedded-RP configured within CUDI and 
CLARA, and at the same time see what options you have for native v6 multicast 
connections with Abilene and GEANT. . .

To be clear, Abilene (and NYSERNet) currently have the RENATER RP configured 
for ff0e::/16 and ff1e::/16. So for the moment those groups will work; the 
issue is how long they'll continue to work, and we don't think that will be 
much longer than a few months.

Bill.