nanog mailing list archives
Re: mulcast assignments
From: Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org>
Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 23:32:56 +0100
On 03/05/2012 21:00, Greg Shepherd wrote:
Sure, but GLOP predated SSM, and was really only an interim fix for the presumed need of mcast address assignments. GLOP only gives you a /24 for each ASN where SSM gives you a /8 for every unique unicast address you have along with vastly superior security and network simplicity.
SSM is indeed a lot simpler and better than GLOP in every conceivable way - except vendor support. It needs igmpv3 on all intermediate devices and SSM support on the client device. All major desktop operating systems now have SSM support (OS/X since 10.7/Lion), but there is still lots of older hardware which either doesn't support igmpv3 or else only supports it in a very primitive fashion. This can lead to Unexpected Behaviour in naive roll-outs. Nick
Current thread:
- mulcast assignments Philip Lavine (May 03)
- Re: mulcast assignments Greg Shepherd (May 03)
- RE: mulcast assignments Quentin Carpent (May 03)
- Re: mulcast assignments Greg Shepherd (May 03)
- Re: mulcast assignments Owen DeLong (May 03)
- Re: mulcast assignments Greg Shepherd (May 03)
- Re: mulcast assignments Valdis . Kletnieks (May 03)
- Re: mulcast assignments Greg Shepherd (May 03)
- RE: mulcast assignments Quentin Carpent (May 03)
- Re: mulcast assignments Greg Shepherd (May 03)
- Re: mulcast assignments Nick Hilliard (May 03)
- Re: mulcast assignments Greg Shepherd (May 03)
- Re: mulcast assignments PC (May 03)
- Re: mulcast assignments Jeff Tantsura (May 03)
- Re: mulcast assignments Marshall Eubanks (May 04)
- Re: mulcast assignments Jeff Tantsura (May 04)