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multicast over the 6in4 tunnels?

Started by bpier, August 06, 2009, 06:27:30 PM

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bpier

Hi,

Are there any plans to support multicast over the 6in4 tunnels from H.E.?

thanks,
Bill

broquea

We've looked into it. Currently we're concentrating on expanding presence in various other locations and deploying tunnel-servers to those locations.

TheWarden

Any news on if/when this will be offered?

kcochran


11rcombs

Necro-ing this; multicast would be great.

broquea

Out of my curiosity, why would it be great? It is neat locally, but why does it need to traverse the internet?

11rcombs

Probably the most common possible use is media streaming over UDP. While there aren't many services streaming multicast right now, that's largely because so few people are currently capable of viewing the streams.

kcochran

Still nothing planned for this.  Except in specialized networks, the gains of multicast over unicast for that kind of application is extremely limited.