IP Multicasting across routers

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From: Ian Douglas Agranat
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:47

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I am designing a proprietary application for which IP multicasting across 
routers may be desirable.  I am curious if anyone has any information regarding:

	1. Which router vendors support RFC 1112 for routing IP multicast 
	   packets across subnets?

	2. What kind of performance penalty or processing overhead is typically
	   associated with IP multicasting both within a host and within the
	   routers?

	3. What kinds of applications use IP multicasting today?  How widely
	   used are they?

	4. What policies exist for the registration of well-known IP multicast
	   addresses?

I don't have time to read this group often, so please send replies directly to
me at ian@Agranat.COM.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


-- Ian Douglas Agranat
   Agranat Systems, Inc.
   ian@Agranat.COM

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From: ian@agranat.Agranat.com (Ian Douglas Agranat)
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Subject: IP Multicasting across routers
Date: 25 Jan 1993 19:47:10 -0500
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