MBone access

Steve Meuse smeuse at genuity.net
Tue Mar 27 22:58:48 UTC 2001


At 03:23 PM 03/27/2001 -0500, Jared Mauch wrote:

>         I'm curious what barriers are keeping multicast from being
>deployed at the edges.  Does your upstream not support
>multicast connectivity, or is it an education issue in getting
>connected?

Changing the NLRI on a neighbor causes a BGP session to reset. If you use 
peer-groups this amplifies the problem. On a large network, scheduling 
maintenance windows to change the NLRI can take quite a long time. This is 
just one of the issues, Education is another large issue.

-Steve







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