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- This is only a rough draft - Megan 04/20/92
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- MOSPF WG meeting, Monday afternoon March 16, 1992
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- Steve Deering - Chair
- Keven Rowett - Notetaker
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- Agenda
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- IETF audio multicast experiment
- John Moy - implementation experiences of MOSPF
- Inter-domain multicast routing
- internet draft to proposed RFC?
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- Deering described the efforts to provide audio of various
- IETF sessions to people unable to attend.
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- The equipment used is a Sun workstation, taking advantage of the
- Sparc built-in 79C30 codec. IP multicasting is being used to relay
- audio via IP tunneling around routers which don't support IP
- multicast routing. Destinations include Hawaii, Australia,
- Sweden, and the U.K.
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- Steve noted that the package provides for talk-back from the distant
- participants, but locally they have been unable to interconnect with
- audio PA system. (Subsequently demonstrated at the Thursday Plenary).
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- John Moy's experiences with implementing MOSPF.
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- Suggested changes as a result of implementing:
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- 1) only one wildcard bit in router-LSA.
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- 0 0 0 0 wildcard VL ASBR ABR
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- Only one wildcard option was ever really needed.
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- 2) Remove IGMP enable/disable switch:
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- DL unicast -> IGMP off
- MC fwd off -> IGMP off
- Else IGMP on.
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- IGMP switch doesn't provide any new information.
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- 3) No more one directional links in OSPF (LSinfinity
- loses meaning in router-LSA).
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- This is actually a subject of OSPF WG, but wants
- both groups in synch.
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- Eliminates disparity between UNICAST and Multicast routing
- tables.
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- Scott Brim questioned if OSPF can force IGMP off,
- especially if BGP is also present.
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- Multicast forwarding models
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- John proposed a mixture of the BSD and MOSPF models (see illustrations
- in accompanying viewgraphs). The proposed scheme could result in
- duplicate packets to multi-homed hosts.
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- For packets originated in local machine, a check is required to see if
- local netowrk looped back the packet. i.e. a LAN (or LAN interface) that
- does forward originated packets. This forces MOSPF forwarding decision
- to check source address does not equal the local address. TTL value is
- one less after MOSPF hop (seems reasonable).
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- John's plans for document re-organization:
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- 1) more on initialization of DIJKSTRA SPF algorithm.
- 2) multicast portion of DIJKSTRA algorithm not optional;
- everyone must do identical DIJKSTRA for consistent tie-breaking.
- 3) add an appendix with tie-breaking examples, just to make sure
- everyone gets this part right.
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- MOPSF implementation notes:
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- John noted that the hardest part of his MOSPF implementation was keeping
- the unicast and multicast DIJKSTRA algorithm in synch. Multicast routing
- table starts with the unicast table. If the unicast table is not right,
- then multicast won't ever be. Must tie multicast forwarding cache
- maintenance to unicast routing tables changes.
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- John asked if IGMP queries should be done over point-to-point links?
- Steve suggest that yes, they should be done on p-to-p links because,
- for example, the link might be to a host or to a non-MOSPF router.
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- John also suggested that it might be possible to do multipath multicast
- routing by using more creative tie-breaking during tree construction.
- The idea is intriguing, but needs more thought. Could possibly use a
- hash of the source address, or the (source, destination) pair, to select
- among multiple route choices.
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- John estimated that his implementation took him the equivalent of
- 30 full-time working days to complete; it added 20% to the size of the
- OSPF code.
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- It was agreed that, after John makes his final pass through the MOSPF draft,
- we would submit for publication as an Proposed Standard RFC.
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- The agenda topic on inter-domain multicasting was not addresses, due to
- time limitations and lack of enthusiasm. (We have gone over that
- territory at every previous meeting.)
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