[179665] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPTV providers in IN/Chicago
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Seastrom)
Tue Apr 28 06:52:33 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: Brandon Martin <lists.nanog@monmotha.net>
From: Rob Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 06:52:30 -0400
In-Reply-To: <553EE34C.4040500@monmotha.net> (Brandon Martin's message of "Mon,
27 Apr 2015 21:33:00 -0400")
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Brandon Martin <lists.nanog@monmotha.net> writes:
> The network in
> question is IPv4 multicast capable and could somewhat trivially (I
> think) be IPv6 multicast capable (it is definitely IPv6 unicast
> capable).
You'd be surprised how many edge devices (unfortunately) support IPv6
multicast only to the degree necessary to implement neighbor
discovery. Lean on your vendor.
And for the love of God, do SSM not ASM (requires igmpv3 or mld2). I
can expound on the problem space off-list if you like.
-r