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Date:      Sun, 8 Dec 1996 05:18:03 +1100 (EST)
From:      michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
To:        fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner)
Cc:        tom@sdf.com, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MROUTING & gated
Message-ID:  <199612071818.FAA08996@asstdc.scgt.oz.au>
In-Reply-To: <96Dec7.095323pst.177711@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from Bill Fenner at "Dec 7, 96 09:53:15 am"

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Bill Fenner writes:

> The 224.0.0.x range of groups is not forwarded by multicast routers, so
> even if you did enable MROUTING (and run a multicast routing daemon),
> these packets would never get forwarded.

Isn't there an obscure (and IMHO unwise) case of an OSPF area which is
physically separated into two by a non-multicast router but joined by a
unicast tunnel ?

E.g I have two OSPF areas which I once thought of joining but which are
separated by Cisco 1003s (w/10.3 no OSPF :-() .. I decided that trying to
set up a tunnel between the two hosts concerned (or arguing with GATED about
it) was worse than the problem it might cure,

	michael



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