Re: Self routing

[Dr G Fairhurst <gorry@erg.abdn.ac.uk>]

Ghassane Aniba wrote:
> 
> Patrick Cipiere wrote:
> >
> > "Thomas 'Dent' Mirlacher" <dent@cosy.sbg.ac.at> wrote:
> >
> > > which set of requirements in mind? MPE probably is not the best solution,
> > > but it works.
> >
> > I completely agree. If we come up with a new design, it must
> > drastically improve the previous and answer useful ans usable
> > requirements that can't be currently addressed.
> >
> Sur. With MPE encapsulation we couldn't doing a filtring depending on
> the source adress( for exemple in Multicast SSM). The new encapsulation
> has to do it.
> 

hey... you mean IP SOURCE ADDRESS!!!!!

That's level 3 information, not level 2. We shouldn't map this into
level 2
simply to allow level 2 filtering - do the filtering at level 3 (using hardware
if you so desitre).  It is a level 3 function.

> > Patrick.
> > --
> > UDcast: Full IP over Broadcast Media
> >
> 
> Ghassane.
> 
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