[c-nsp] multicast on layer 2

[Tantsura, Jeff]

Gert,

I'd like to stop this pointless discussion right now...
I think it's a question of point of view and terminology.
IMHO the fact that first hop router knows about existence of multicast
sources on it's LAN interface means that the router has registered these
sources and that these sources are registered to(by) the router.


Have a nice weekend,
Jeff


-----Original Message-----
From: Gert Doering [mailto:gert at greenie.muc.de] 
Sent: 01 July 2005 13:33
To: Tantsura, Jeff
Cc: 'Gert Doering'; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] multicast on layer 2

Hi,

On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 10:54:46AM +0200, Tantsura, Jeff wrote:
> What I actually meant is that sources register (but not in the way
receivers
> do) on the first-hop router and first-hop router then sends Register to
RP.

And exactly this is what sources do *not* do.  Sources do not "register"
anywhere.  Sources do not need to know about routers, first-hops or others.

Sources just send packets out of their local multicast LAN interface.

*All* the rest (registering, forwarding, pruning, ...) is done by
the routers.

gert
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