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Re: MBone access

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Meuse)
Tue Mar 27 18:04:38 2001

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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 17:58:48 -0500
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.Nether.net>
From: Steve Meuse <smeuse@genuity.net>
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At 03:23 PM 03/27/2001 -0500, Jared Mauch wrote:

>         I'm curious what barriers are keeping multicast from being
>deployed at the edges.  Does your upstream not support
>multicast connectivity, or is it an education issue in getting
>connected?

Changing the NLRI on a neighbor causes a BGP session to reset. If you use 
peer-groups this amplifies the problem. On a large network, scheduling 
maintenance windows to change the NLRI can take quite a long time. This is 
just one of the issues, Education is another large issue.

-Steve





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