Dear Shu, Please see inline.
Regards, Behcet On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Shu Yang <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Behcet, > > > If Softwire mesh means packets from the host to > > one CE are directly routed to the destination CE, I > > am puzzled how multicast can be supported in such a network? > > In Softwire mesh multicast, packets from source host are first > routed to AFBR (address family border router), using multicast. > Then packets travel through the core towards another AFBR > (as the core runs MPBGP), with either unicast or multicast. > At last, packets are routed to the destination, with multicast > again. > > My question is not about how you propose to support multicast. But my question is a very fundamental one. I think that mesh architecture is a very specific architecture. It seems that it will work only for unicast. As to your approach, of course you can do things like that but that would also work for non mesh architecture, right? Your further review and comments are more than welcome. > > Best Regards, > Shu Yang >
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