Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 08:11:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: opsys@mail.webspan.net (Open Systems Networking) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: option MROUTING Message-ID: <199806240811.BAA21542@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980623175255.23321E-100000@orion.webspan.net> from "Open Systems Networking" at Jun 23, 98 06:03:20 pm
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> You could slap a nice pretty GUI on all the config tools for mbone on unix > you want, but until you find a provider who carries MBONE feeds, let alone > even remotely knows what the MBONE is, it isnt going to do you much good. I think Amancio's point, which should be well taken, is analogous to the enabling of RFC1323 and RFC1644 by default in FreeBSD in support of T/TCP, etc.. The counter-argument at the time might have easily been "...but until you find a provider whose terminal server doesn't blow TCP option negotiation...". Instead, the options were enabled by default, and the majority of the Internet is better for it: the terminal servers were modified to meet the challenge. There is a big difference betwwen "Operation not supported" and "Sorry, but your ISP doesn't appear to support MBONE; refer your ISP to the following RFC's: ...". > I have tried sprint, mci, and feist here and not one engineer knew the > difference between the MBONE and a video conferencing ISDN solution. You didn't try very hard at Sprint: Vadim Antonov works there as a network engineer. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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