[174259] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Multicast Internet Route table.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Tantsura)
Tue Sep 2 11:59:15 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Jeff Tantsura <jeff.tantsura@ericsson.com>
To: Octavio Alvarez <alvarezp@alvarezp.ods.org>, "nanog@nanog.org"
<nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 15:58:16 +0000
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It is not the network devices per se, it is additional configuration,
security, MSDP peering, etc, i.e. OPEX
Business justification for such effort is not obvious, (most of multicast
deployments I have done in my previous life were because I loved the
technology, not because of business needs :))
Cheers,
Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: Octavio Alvarez <alvarezp@alvarezp.ods.org>
Date: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 at 8:43 AM
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Subject: Re: Multicast Internet Route table.
>On 09/02/2014 05:46 AM, John Kristoff wrote:
>> On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 04:47:37 +0000
>> "S, Somasundaram (Somasundaram)" <somasundaram.s@alcatel-lucent.com>
>> wrote:
>>=20
>>> 1: Does all the ISP's provide Multicast Routing by
>>> default?
>>=20
>> No not all and even those that do often do not do so on the same gear,
>> links and peers as their unicast forwarding.
>
>Why would that be, are network devices not able to support multicast?
>
>I have never used interdomain multicast but I imagine the global
>m-routing table would quickly become large.
