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["Tony Ballardie" <>]

Agreed. (I meant it's no time to give up on inter-domain multicast btw,
in case anyone interpreted that as "no time to give up on ASM") :)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Crosswell 
> [mailto:]
> Sent: 24 October 2008 13:00
> To: Tony Ballardie
> Cc: Dan Pritts; Greg Shepherd; Pekka Savola; wg-multicast; Tom
Pusateri
> Subject: Re: OSX IGMPv3/SSM woes..
> 
> Rate-limiting MSDP means you may lose useful, low update frequency,l
> SAs that are buried in the noise.
> 
> ASM must die.
> /a
> 
> On Oct 24, 2008, at 6:17 AM, "Tony Ballardie" 
> <Tony.Ballardie@global-
> mix.com
>  > 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
> >
> >