On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 11:41:24PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
Yes, but how do I get those multicast packets to flow over my network? It seems the Mbone has dropped of the face of the net and everyone still doing multicast is doing it natively so if your transits aren't multicast capable you're out of luck.
You are a customer. Request it from your transit provider. If that still doesnt work, take your money to someone who offers what you want. In many cases the lack of customer demand prevents deployment in ISP networks ways too often IMHO. Even if there are engineers who want to deploy it the lack of demand from paying customers makes it a low priority task if something happens at all. I also experienced that people who want multicast from their upstream give up too soon. Sales and account reps are sometimes "confused" about multicast. Installing tunnels won't solve the problem. I even believe the opposite is true: There is less "pressure" on the transit ISPs from their customers to deploy multicast and offer it to their customers. -tb