The IP Over NBMA (ION) Archive

[Grenville Armitage <gja@bellcore.com>]

>>> Yakov's draft (such as I remember of it) was not to do with small mc
>>> groups per se, but the interconnection of mrouters attached to the edges
>>> of a transit ATM/NBMA cloud. 
>>
>>The draft covers not just routers, but hosts (senders, receivers) as well.

My apologies - I was thinking of a presentation you made to MPOA
based on an earlier I-D.

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>>Minimizing topological mismatch could reduce the need not just for
>>unicast cut-through, but for multicast cut-through as well.

yes, it certainly would. (in fact this is essentially what Ipsilon's
approach achieves by making each L3 node an L2 node as well -
you get perfect topology match :)

gja