All things related to multicast

[Marshall Eubanks <>]

On Oct 24, 2008, at 7:59 AM, Alan Crosswell wrote:

> Rate-limiting MSDP means you may lose useful, low update frequency,l  
> SAs that are buried in the noise.

Yes, but at least on the global internet, it, plus the other storm  
limiting measures put into place,
actually seem to work fairly well.

Regards
Marshall

> ASM must die.
> /a
>
> On Oct 24, 2008, at 6:17 AM, "Tony Ballardie" < 
> > wrote:
>
> > > From: Dan Pritts 
> > > [mailto:]
> > > Sent: 23 October 2008 21:34
> > >
> > > > After all, 1) ASM works,
> > >
> > > Arguably, ASM does not work.
> > >
> > > I've certainly had problems on my network due to MSDP storms
> > > and the SAP storm we saw recently.
> >
> > ASM works provided it's configured properly (like anything else)  
> > and you
> > rate-limit msdp. Unless you're talking about bugs which do break its
> > correct operation, it's misleading to suggest it doesn't work. That's
> > NOT to say we shouldn't be moving towards SSM - we definitely SHOULD.
> >
> > > IMO, Going forward we'll be faced with a choice between SSM and  
> > > giving
> > > up on
> > > interdomain multicast.
> >
> > It's not time to give up on it.... quite the opposite :-)
> >
> > Tony