Doesnt announcing the same routing prefix into BGP from multiple locations do the same thing without needing a new range or enhancement in IGMP etc ? We do this in IGP currently.. Steve On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Barry Raveendran Greene wrote:
FYI - for those scratching their heads on "anycast" .....
I just pushed out a paper on anycast by Chris Metz. Good foundation material.
http://www.cisco.com/public/cons/isp/essentials/ip-anycast-cmetz-03.pdf
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Bill Woodcock Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 4:56 AM To: Marshall Eubanks Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Internet vulnerabilities
> But the only IPv4 anycast > that I know of does use MSDP : > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mboned-anycast-rp-08.txt > Is there a different proposal ? What's the RFC / I-D name ?
You seem to be confusing anycast with something complicated. It's not a protocol, it's a method of assigning and routing addresses.
-Bill