Patrick Horgan wrote :
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> > From mmp .
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> > Multicasted packets also pose serious threat to IP filtering as the
> > architecture of the packet is an IP packet WITHIN another IP packet. The
> > [snip]
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> You know I don't think you really understand how multicasting works. It's
> just another ip packet with a class D address, and routers that know how
> [snip]
I vaguely remember seeing somewhere (in a RFC ?) that IP within IP is
used for something, even if not for multicasting. Does that ring a bell
with anyone ?
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