From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 24 10:25:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA15395 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 10:25:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ve7tcp.ampr.org (ve7tcp.ampr.org [198.161.92.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA15289 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 10:24:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lyndon@ve7tcp.ampr.org) Received: from ve7tcp.ampr.org (localhost.ampr.org [127.0.0.1]) by ve7tcp.ampr.org (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA25068; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 11:24:28 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199806241724.LAA25068@ve7tcp.ampr.org> To: Jamie Bowden cc: Open Systems Networking , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: option MROUTING In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 24 Jun 1998 08:10:15 EDT." Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 11:24:27 -0600 From: Lyndon Nerenberg Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Jamie" == Jamie Bowden writes: Jamie> MCI knows what an MBONE feed is. I believe the address you Jamie> need for MCI is mbone@internetmci.com. They used to offer Jamie> this free to high bandwidth clients. I don't know if it's Jamie> still free or not. Maybe I'm a bit dense, but I could never figure out where ISP's get off trying to charge me for something that *reduces* their infrastructure costs. Unless, maybe, they charge by the packet/byte and actually *want* all those redundent unicast streams running up the meter :-( Has anyone every signed a network services contract that specifically excludes routing of IP addresses in the multicast block? I've never heard of an ISP getting sued for breach of contract by not providing routing of all IP addresses (i.e. including multicast) ... --lyndon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message