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Title : The UDP Multicast Tunneling Protocol
Author(s) : R. Finlayson
Filename : draft-finlayson-umtp-09.txt
Pages : 6
Date : 2003-11-24
Many Internet hosts - such as PCs - while capable of running multicast
applications, cannot access the MBone (or other wide-area multicast
network) because the router(s) that connect them to the Internet
do not yet support IP multicast routing. The 'UDP Multicast Tunneling
Protocol' (UMTP) enables such a host to establish an 'ad hoc' connection to the MBone by tunneling multicast UDP datagrams inside unicast UDP datagrams. By using UDP, this tunneling can be implemented as a 'user level' application, without requiring changes to the host's
operating system.
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