All things related to multicast

[Bill Owens <>]

On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 02:09:53AM -0400, Bill Owens wrote:
> On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 05:21:11PM -0700, Tim Stevenson wrote:
> > Yes, but my (admittedly limited) understanding has been that MLDv1 is 
> > more widely available in host stacks at this stage, though v2 is 
> > making inroads.
> > 
> > Tim
> 
> That's right; all the major desktop and server OSes do MLDv1, only Linux
> does MLDv2. Windows Vista will have v2 when it is released (whenever that 
> is -
> I don't keep track).

One other thing - if there's a v6 SSM stream that you'd like to view and you 
happen to be connected to a Cisco that has the "DNS Mapping" feature, it 
works fine for v6. That wasn't clear from the manuals the last time I looked 
at them. Juniper has a similar feature for their E-series equipment, I think, 
but I've never had the chance to test it. It's a weird hack, and definitely 
not at all scalable, but it does let you see the video.

Bill.