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Re: mulcast assignments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Shepherd)
Thu May 3 16:01:35 2012
In-Reply-To: <07C3015B9E21F949AB59B28F2D5B567F05A452@exch-pul-01.interne.smart-telecom.ch>
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 13:00:49 -0700
From: Greg Shepherd <gjshep@gmail.com>
To: Quentin Carpent <quentin.carpent@vtx-telecom.ch>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: gjshep@gmail.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Sure, but GLOP predated SSM, and was really only an interim fix for
the presumed need of mcast address assignments. GLOP only gives you a
/24 for each ASN where SSM gives you a /8 for every unique unicast
address you have along with vastly superior security and network
simplicity.
Greg
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Quentin Carpent
<quentin.carpent@vtx-telecom.ch> wrote:
> You can also use the glop IP addressing:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3180
>
> Quentin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Shepherd [mailto:gjshep@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thu 5/3/2012 9:35 PM
> To: Philip Lavine
> Cc: NANOG list
> Subject: Re: mulcast assignments
>
> Why do you think you need an assigned mcast block? All inter domain
> mcast uses source trees only, so just use SSM and you don't need
> address assignments.
>
> Greg
>
> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Philip Lavine <source_route@yahoo.com> w=
rote:
>> =A0=A0 How do I get a registered multicast block?
>>
>
>
