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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: Seeking advice on mrouted configuration.. 
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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 12:42:23 PST
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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In message <3508.825541227@time.cdrom.com>you write:
>Yes, both pairs are in the same subnets, but that should be OK from a
>unicast point of view so why mandate special twisty semantics for
>multicast when you don't have to?  Is it really so hard to make
>mrouted respect this scenario?

Rather, "people noticed a long time ago that unicast doesn't break when you 
break the Internet architecture in this way, so it became accepted practice, 
so why does mrouted break?" -- well, because you broke the Internet 
architecture.

I'm not saying that I'm not working on "fixing" such things, I'm just saying 
that it's more complex an issue [in fact, a fundamental architectural issue] 
than most people realize.

  Bill