On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:54:05PM +0100, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Ramin Dousti wrote: > > > Can you explain (b) a bit more, Harald? Multicast traffic is being > > dealt with by the routers in exactly the same way as the unicast > > traffic with regards to the TTL (as far as I understand it). > > Yes, but the difference is that multicast does actually use the ttl to > limit the scope of how wide the traffic is distributed, as opposed to most > other protocols just using the ttl to kill forwarding loops. Absolutely. For a sec I forgot all about the dense mode. Thanks, Henrik. However, I still don't see any "danger" about this. It might not be desirable but not dangerous, as multicast forwarding has a builtin mechanism against the loops. Ramin > Regards > Henrik
