[c-nsp] Re: multicast on layer 2

[Daniel Roesen]

On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 01:50:34PM +0200, Tantsura, Jeff wrote:
> I'd like to stop this pointless discussion right now...

It's not pointless.

> I think it's a question of point of view and terminology.

The latter I'd say.

> 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

THIS is absolutely correct.

> and that these sources are registered to(by) the router.

Indeed. Registered _by_ the router, not _to_ the router. There is no
active act of the source specifically informing the router of it's
existance.

So I think we have this straight now for the archive. :-)


Best regards,
Daniel

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