All things related to multicast

[Stig Venaas <>]

Katsuhiro Horiba wrote:
> Hi, Bill and Cort,
>
> I think your mail is very interesting.
> I choose the group address depends on the GLOP rules.
> (We are AS2500, 233.9.196.0/24 was calculated by GLOP.)
>
> I'm interesting how do you choose the IPv4 group address when you want 
> to send Multicast traffic?
> Do you have any policy in the Internet2 community, Global Multicast 
> community's agreement or MSDP filter rules?

I think there was just some confusion with the typo below. IMO GLOP
addresses are the best choice for Internet multicast like this. Mainly
since there should be no conflict.

Stig

> Best Regards,
> Katsuhiro Horiba
>
>
>
>
> On 2009/07/23, at 0:36, Cort Buffington wrote:
>
> > Thank you Bill! Brother Owens wins the prize... I had mad a typo 
> > transcribing the groups from Katsuhiro's original e-mail as 239.9....
> >
> > So it looks like I'm the fool wasting time :)
> >
> > On Jul 22, 2009, at 10:14 AM, Bill Owens wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:04:09AM -0500, Cort Buffington wrote:
> > > > Am I the only one that blocks administratively scoped multicast group
> > > > addresses at my autonomous system border?
> > >
> > > Most people do (including NYSERNet). But what does that have to do 
> > > with this multicast?
> > >
> > > Bill.
> >
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