Class D addresses? was: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public

Sat Nov 20 22:14:36 UTC 2021

Subject: Re: Class D addresses? was: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Date: Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 11:51:24AM -0800 Quoting William Herrin (bill at herrin.us):

> Multicast is not the same as broadcast and yes, it's a thing. Mainly
> it's a thing confined to the local broadcast domain but in that scope
> it's quite widely used. 

All the heavy lifting in video production via IP is done over
multicast. Mostly, it is internal to one organisation, and the 239/8
(RFC2365) block is being used, but routing multi-gbit RTP flows over
multicast is a thing where I work.

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