All things related to multicast

[Bill Owens <>]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 04:48:10PM -0500, Julian Y. Koh wrote:
> Yeah, none of our routers have problems with the SAP storms.  The problems
> we see are that departmental hosts behind firewalls are listening for SAPs,
> and the firewalls fall over trying to filter/drop/log all the traffic.

And small sites with limited bandwidth being pretty effectively DoS'ed by the 
SAP traffic, as soon as they so much as start a client.

Bill.