From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 7 10:18:18 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id KAA03178 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 10:18:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from asstdc.scgt.oz.au (root@asstdc.scgt.oz.au [202.14.234.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id KAA03173 for ; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 10:18:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from imb@localhost) by asstdc.scgt.oz.au (8.7.6/BSD4.4) id FAA08996 Sun, 8 Dec 1996 05:18:04 +1100 (EST) From: michael butler Message-Id: <199612071818.FAA08996@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> Subject: Re: MROUTING & gated In-Reply-To: <96Dec7.095323pst.177711@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from Bill Fenner at "Dec 7, 96 09:53:15 am" To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 05:18:03 +1100 (EST) Cc: tom@sdf.com, hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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