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

From: Yasmin Lara (ylara@sunsetlearning.com)
Date: Mon Jun 11 2007 - 17:53:33 ART


Well, that maybe because MSDP as far as I know is not yet supported for IPv6.
PIM and MP-BGP work though.

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From: nobody@groupstudy.com on behalf of John Gibson
Sent: Mon 6/11/2007 11:14 AM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: RE: "RFC 3306 provides for IPv6 unicast-based multicast addresses."

But we are not going to route any thing any
differently right? We still use MSDP for
interdomain multicast right?

Can't find any doc about IPv6 MSDP.

John

--- John Gibson <johngibson1541@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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