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Re: Self routing
Dr G Fairhurst wrote:
>
> 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.
ok,I know. I mean that we have to ditinguish between flows
(source,group). In Multicast it's more important to do it. If we use
PIM-SSM with the satellite network, we'll need information about the
source adress.
>
> > > Patrick.
> > > --
> > > UDcast: Full IP over Broadcast Media
> > >
> >
> > Ghassane.
> >
Ghassane.