[nsp] Speaking of Multicast

[Simon Lockhart]

On Sat May 22, 2004 at 10:16:10PM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> I'd also be curious if anyone here ever found documentation on any DSL
> CPEs that claim to "support multicast".  Specifically, Netopia, Flowpoint
> (now Speedstream), Broadxent, Zyxel.  So far I'm turning up a big fat
> nothing in the vendor supplied docs.  It also seems with DSL CPE they tend
> to hide the "real manuals" and only give the juicy bits of information to
> people like Covad and the bells.

Several DSL routers I've looked at (certainly the Alcatel Speedtouch, and
a Connexant based no-namer) claim to support IGMP on the datasheet, but I've 
not had an opportunity to actually try this to see if they'll form a PIM
adjacancy on the ADSL uplink.

Simon
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