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General IPv6 Topics => IPv6 Basics & Questions & General Chatter => Topic started by: elFarto on February 16, 2011, 02:02:08 PM

Title: I can haz multicast?
Post by: elFarto on February 16, 2011, 02:02:08 PM
Does HE have any plans to introduce multicast support?

Regards
elFarto
Title: Re: I can haz multicast?
Post by: whfsdude on February 20, 2011, 10:36:03 AM
Please?  ;D
Title: Re: I can haz multicast?
Post by: Mierdin on February 21, 2011, 03:16:34 PM
What kind of support are you looking for? Multicast to what?
Title: Re: I can haz multicast?
Post by: elFarto on February 22, 2011, 01:00:48 AM
Quote from: Mierdin on February 21, 2011, 03:16:34 PM
What kind of support are you looking for? Multicast to what?
I would like to be able to join a multicast group, and start receiving traffic from it. I guess that means running PIM-SM. Hell, I'd settle for just having the embedded RP addresses work (as it seems they're the most workable at an internet scale).

Regards
elFarto
Title: Re: I can haz multicast?
Post by: thermionic on March 03, 2011, 03:22:24 PM
I'd also be really interested in being able to receive multicast
Title: Re: I can haz multicast?
Post by: broquea on March 03, 2011, 03:30:58 PM
No plans for multicast with tunnels as of yet.
Title: Re: I can haz multicast?
Post by: baryluk on December 12, 2011, 06:18:31 PM
Quote from: broquea on March 03, 2011, 03:30:58 PM
No plans for multicast with tunnels as of yet.
Any changes on plans? Is multicast supported by HE core network actually (suppose I would buy multiple 10Mbps connections from you at multiple pops, will I have multicast availeble and multicast routing working between them, at least in your network, and maybe your few other direct peers)?
Title: Re: I can haz multicast?
Post by: broquea on December 12, 2011, 08:03:28 PM
Again, no plans.
Title: Re: I can haz multicast?
Post by: maestroevolution on January 09, 2012, 12:54:00 PM
Do the IPv4 and IPv6 internets currently route public multicast traffic today?  I was not aware that anyone did, especially between service providers.

If you wanted multicast traffic from yourself (Site A) to yourself (Site B), that's in the flavor of an MPLS VPN, and multicast within an L3 vrf has additional challenges to where they are not usually offered by default by service providers.

What do you want to do?  Stream video to yourself via multicast over IPv6 for educational/learning/fun?  Configure PIM with an IPv6 RP and watch everything work?

Anyone with a router and an IPv4 address can configure it as a tunnel server (assuming router supports 6-in-4 tunnels, of course, and doesn't have limits on combining features:multicast and 6-in-4 tunnels, for example).