On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 20 Feb 2015, Toerless Eckert wrote: > >> So foremost, it would be good to understand if there really is home L2 >> equipment that MUST see MLD to operate correctly. Otherwise i'd happily >> ignore the problem and say there is enough bandwidth to just NOT DO snooping >> but have multicast be flooded in the L2 segments. > > > I know of ATA (VoIP) devices with 10/half uplinks that fall over HARD when > they receive two simultaneous IPTV streams when doing channel switching. > > So it's not only about bandwidth, but about how much traffic these kinds of > devices are designed to receive. > > Also, remember that we're going to 4k IPTV streams that might be in the 20 > megabit/s range, and we might be doing multiples of them. All devices on the > subnet will receive this if there is no MLD/PIM snooping precent.
Is there a formal definition of IPTV? as used here, it seems to imply multicast. Frankly, until now, I was expecting the world to go to a HAS model for content, especially big content. > > -- > Mikael Abrahamsson email: [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > homenet mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet -- Dave Täht thttp://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/Upcoming_Talks _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
