All things related to multicast

["Richard Mavrogeanes" <>]

Alan,
 
Well, the next release supports IPV6, and perhaps multicast too.
 
The trouble/question is local Ethernet switch support ("snooping" behavior), 
and I'm hoping someone has some war stories to share.  It was bad enough 
getting the switch vendors fully onboard with IGMP, and I wonder where they 
are with IPV6 multicast.  Obviously, IPV6 is not so useful if it can't reach 
the end user (desktop).
 
/rich
 

        -----Original Message----- 
        From: Alan Crosswell 
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        Sent: Sat 5/20/2006 12:54 PM 
        To: Richard Mavrogeanes 
        Cc: 

 
        Subject: Re: IPV6 Multicast
        
        

        Abiline and most of the gigapops support it.  There are some issues 
with
         some international networks not yet support embedded RP.  Campuses 
are
        pretty far behind.  NYU is one of the few that has done v6 multicast
        with NYSERNet.  In the first ever v6 multicast hands on workshop in
        Albuquerque a few months ago, we viewed content that was being 
multicast
        from Syracuse.
        
        Put it in a product and I'll have an excuse to replace my Vbrick 
1200's:-)
        
        /a
        
        Richard Mavrogeanes wrote:
        > I'd like to explore this group's experience with IPV6 multicast, in 
particular, what do we believe is the current state of the Internet2 backbone 
network and what do we think is the state of enterprise routers and switches 
to allow it?
        > 
        > Looking forward to an interesting thread...
        > 
        > /rich
        >