"More Difficult", but no more so than any other tunnelling
protocol. One could certainly make something that checked what was
coming in encapsulated only alowing certain things in there. I'd be
amazed if someone hasn't already. The ablilty to use your bandwidth
through your firewall to listen to the radio, like the ability to run
your firewall on Windows NT, will sell firewalls to lots of people. ;)
-Bob
>
> I've wondered the same thing myself, and I assumed
> the answer is no. From what I can tell, it would be a
> really bad idea. IP Multicast encapsulates IP in IP,
> making it more difficult to tell what's coming through.
>
>
> Ryan
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> From: ripper @ dataway.com ("Mathias K.") @ smtp
> Date: 04/16/97 11:43:35 AM
> Subject: Can firewalls handle MBONE (ip multicast) traffic?
>
> Hi,
>
> Any idea if firewall products can generally deal properly with ip multicast
> traffic like the MBONE? I've visited websites for Checkpoint(FW1), Pix
> (cisco), Raptor, and TIS, and have been unable to find any information
> regarding their support for ip multicast. I figure it's either "obvious"
> that they support it and therefore not worth mentioning, or they don't
> support it and don't want to call attention to that deficiency.
>
> Thanks for any hints,
> -mat.
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