All things related to multicast

[Michael H Lambert <>]

> On 10 Aug 2016, at 18:23, John Kristoff 
> <>
>  wrote:
> 
> Scaling interdomain IP multicast was an ongoing problem, with MSDP being
> one of the more obvious places where problems arose.  I'm willing to bet
> much of what is in MSDP is noise and not really intended to be
> available outside the source AS.  Rate limiting and filtering will
> only get us so far until we would have to effectively turn it off and
> do "something else" to keep it going.  It is even hard to know for sure
> what the MSDP trends are though, because no one is doing any MSDP
> monitoring anymore from what I can tell.  That too is a problem.

The fact that, as far as I know, there was never an open source MSDP 
implementation is rather telling.

Michael