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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!info.ucla.edu!news.bc.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Mrouted Date: 25 Jul 1996 17:31:16 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4t87gk$a3@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <Pine.3.91.960721170621.1932B-100000@fog.cs.odu.edu> <31F62541.446E@www.play-hookey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Ken Bigelow (kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com) wrote: : Isn't 224.0.0.x a local-only address, like 10.0.0.x? If so, then 224... : cannot be used in any way externally to your home subnet, including via : PPP. : -- Nope, addresses beginning with 244 are class E addresses. I'm no expert with mbone stuff, but it's pretty interresting (I got the wrong book - gave up reading it when it started telling me how to use X-windows Motif style programs....:-( ) Btw, mbone is the same as multicast - except that mbone is tunneled around the place to dodge non-multicast aware routers. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....