[174268] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Multicast Internet Route table.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Hallgren)
Tue Sep 2 15:32:54 2014
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Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 21:32:31 +0200
From: Michael Hallgren <m.hallgren@free.fr>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Le 02/09/2014 18:05, Mikael Abrahamsson a écrit :
> On Tue, 2 Sep 2014, Octavio Alvarez wrote:
>
>> I have never used interdomain multicast but I imagine the global
>> m-routing table would quickly become large.
>
> I have set up interdomain routing connecting both to a few peers and a
> Tier1 transit provider. Not many non-research networks to be seen.
>
> Also, since we didn't use it it kept breaking and I had to fix it
> every two years or so, where it probably had been down for months.
>
> I don't believe in Internet-wide multicast happening in current
> incarnation, it's just too fragile and too few people are using it. It
> wouldn't scale either due to all the state that needs to be kept.
>
Been there as well. Now, IPv6 mcast? ;-)
Cheers,
mh
