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From: Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>
To: Jim Lowe <james@miller.cs.uwm.edu>
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Subject: Re: [FUN/WORK] BSD Networking virtual meeting.
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Jim Lowe writes:
 > 
 > The Mbone (or multicast backbone) is tunnel'ed network (today) which
 > rides on top of the unicast Internet.  A map of the mbone is available
 > from http://www.nlanr.net/Viz/Mbone/.  The IETF MBONED group is
 > working on deploying multicast technologies for the Internet at large
 > (http://network-services.uoregon.edu/~meyer/MBONED/).   A web
 > site with genreal Mbone information is http://www.mbone.com.
 > 
I would say that the MBone is 'partially tunneled' today. There are
regions of dozens of routers in the MBone that run multicast native.
(and those regions are growing bigger)

Pete