Please note that bis-05 is clear that the client has to be a member of
the multicast group it sent the request on.

-Jonathan R.

Pekka Pessi wrote:

 > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lei Liang
 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
 >
 >> I see in rfc2543 that servers and UACs may send request via
 >> multcast address and when the next downstream hop response this
 >> request, it will send it back via the multicast address derived
 >> from the via headers of the request. but how could the upstream
 >> hop receive the response if it's not a member of this multicast
 >> group?
 >>
 >
 >      The section 10.46.1 in bis04 states that client MAY insert a    maddr
 >  parameter with unicast address to the Via header.  If       client does
 >  not belong to the group it sent the request, it just        inserts its
 > own unicast address to the Via header and then sits  and waits for
 > a whole bunch of 100 Trying messages to arrive.
 >
 >               
                Pekka
 >
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