[47030] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sorta OT: IP Multicasting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Tue Apr 23 06:51:31 2002
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:50:23 +0200 (CEST)
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
To: Torsten Blum <torstenb@vmunix.org>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Torsten Blum wrote:
> > Yes, but how do I get those multicast packets to flow over my network? It
> > seems the Mbone has dropped of the face of the net and everyone still
> > doing multicast is doing it natively so if your transits aren't multicast
> > capable you're out of luck.
> You are a customer. Request it from your transit provider. If that still
> doesnt work, take your money to someone who offers what you want.
Sure, if I _really_ want multicast I can do that. But the thing is, I
haven't actually used it, so how do I know if it's worth the trouble?
> In many cases the lack of customer demand prevents deployment in ISP networks
> ways too often IMHO. Even if there are engineers who want to deploy it the
> lack of demand from paying customers makes it a low priority task if
> something happens at all.
It would help if there was some way for customers to experience multicast
so they can see if this is something they want.
