Re: MBONE and SGI

[lear @ yeager . corp . sgi . com (Eliot Lear)]

SGI currently runs a tunnelling mrouted, configured so that packets
with TTLs less than 32 will not be transmitted to the mbone (see
threshold).  Since no TCP services can be accessed via multicast, and
since our machines cannot unicast back to sources, we deemed the risk
to be acceptable.  It's conceivable that someone could develop a kiss
of death packet for some udp service.


-- 
Eliot Lear
[lear @
 sgi .
 com]