[13345] in Cypherpunks
Re: MBone cypherpunks session...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Sommerfeld)
Sat May 7 08:53:42 1994
Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 23:56:47 -0400
From: sommerfeld@orchard.medford.ma.us (Bill Sommerfeld)
To: smb@research.att.com
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9405062128.AA13790@toad.com> (smb@research.att.com)
Now, I'm not one to contradict what Steve says, but a couple of
documents I read recently about the MBONE indicate that the currently
released technology out there doesn't do very much in the way of
"pruning" at all; the distance-vector multicast routing protocol used
by mrouted supposedly only prunes the spanning tree at leaf networks.
This was in a document referenced from the "MBONE Home page";
unfortunately, I found it from the "www.media.org" server located at
Interop which is probably in pieces or in a shipping crate right now.
- Bill
