Hi, IMO, it is possible in theory, however, it is impossible in practice. - anycast is implemented by Routing System, so it is a very very difficult task to Routeing System. - how to grantd that there is not deadlock? - it is time consuming to implement by this mean.
BRs -Feng Yanjun -------------------------- Feng Yanjun Computer Network Information Center(CNIC) Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China Tel : 86-10-62657502 Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : www.cnic.ac.cn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Abdul Basit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 6:12 PM Subject: anycast emulation for multicast. > > Hi! > > Can we use IP anycast to emulate multicast ? > like in a set of nodes, instead of multicasting to a group of nodes > sendor performs anycast , then the reciever further performs anycast > and vice versa , unless somehow we will be able to detect that > no more anycast is possible , in this case , how can we guarantee > that anycast won't back to the previous sender again ? > > thanks > - basit > MS computer science > wichita state university > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List > IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng > FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng > Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
