Re: Self routing

["Thomas 'Dent' Mirlacher" <dent@cosy.sbg.ac.at>]

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> > see above - it's fine if you restrict yourself to IPv[46]
> > ... and yes, i don't know if filtering on the SOURCE in layer2 needs
> > to be there - in most of the cases (all?) the destination address
> > is more useful. (in terms of keeping the load on the receiver low,
> > as well as really simply (non-)security mechanism)
> 
> If the Muticast case, if we have a terminal wich join Group G but
> doesn't want the data from the source S. So, in this case, we don't need
> to transmit data in the uplink of the satellite network, and so we
> reduce the no need traffic. into doing that, we have to know the source
> adress (PIM-SM and the Rendez-vous Point RP).

but in this case, you're filtering the traffic BEFORE the air interface?

	++Thomas

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