[7414] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NAP filters and multicast
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Salo)
Wed Feb 5 00:43:05 1997
From: salo@msc.edu (Tim Salo)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 23:39:36 -0600 (CST)
To: nanog@merit.edu
> Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 21:56:52 -0600 (CST)
> From: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>
> Subject: NAP filters and multicast
> [...]
> I haven't looked to closely at
> multicast on the ATM NAPs. Are they using ATM's native multicast
> capability, or are they using multiple tunnels?
ATM's approximation of multicast is still pretty primitive. I would
be very surprised if any of the ATM-based NAPs are trying to use
ATM multicast to support the MBONE.
-tjs
