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Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 02:31:05 -0800
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From: Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live.com>
Subject: Re: MBONE anyone?
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At 04:18 AM 3/5/02, Torsten Blum wrote:
> >The term "MBone" refers to the entire
> > multicast-routed subset of the global Internet.  At first, however, prior
> > to the introduction of native multicast routing on some links, this
> > consisted solely of DVMRP tunnels - hence the confusion.
>
>http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/internet/mbone-faq.html
>"... The MBONE is a virtual network. It is layered on top of portions of the
>  physical Internet to support routing of IP multicast packets..."

Thanks for pointing out this obsolete web page.  I reminded the author 
(Henning Schulzrinne) about this, and he went ahead and removed the the page.

         Ross.


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