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Date:      Wed, 5 Mar 1997 06:37:21 +0200 (EET)
From:      Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>
To:        Jim Lowe <james@miller.cs.uwm.edu>
Cc:        hasty@rah.star-gate.com, mark@quickweb.com, <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, Michael@quickweb.com, Smith@quickweb.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@whistle.com, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [FUN/WORK] BSD Networking virtual meeting.
Message-ID:  <199703050437.GAA23994@silver.sms.fi>
In-Reply-To: <199703041836.MAA18510@miller.cs.uwm.edu>
References:  <199703041836.MAA18510@miller.cs.uwm.edu>

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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



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