On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Torsten Blum 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.
Sure, if I _really_ want multicast I can do that. But the thing is, I haven't actually used it, so how do I know if it's worth the trouble?
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.
It would help if there was some way for customers to experience multicast so they can see if this is something they want.