RE: "RFC 3306 provides for IPv6 unicast-based multicast

From: John Gibson (johngibson1541@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jun 11 2007 - 01:59:39 ART


I see. And thanks for validating that something new
is happening.

John

--- Yasmin Lara <ylara@sunsetlearning.com> wrote:

> Unicast-based multicast addresses allow you to use
> your global unicast
> prefix to create your group id, making it globally
> unique since your
> global prefix is globally unique.
>
> In IPv4, we didn't have enough bits to do anything
> like this.
>
> Yasmin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com
> [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> johngibson1541@yahoo.com
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 12:09 PM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: "RFC 3306 provides for IPv6 unicast-based
> multicast addresses."
>
> I am looking at this in documentation and support
> page.
>
> Does this mean we can, without any tunneling,
> multicast across the
> unicast-only IPv6 global public Internet ?
>
> Is this new? We couldn't do the same in IPv4
> multicasting right ?
>
>



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