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Multicasting with ATM - a concern

  • From: murray@pa.dec.com
  • Date: Tue, 17 Oct 95 02:49:29 -0700
  • CC: murray@pa.dec.com, ip-atm@matmos.hpl.hp.com


> it is not entirely clear that you can easily construct a mpt-mpt
> VC service (to avoid the need for pt to mpt VC meshes).

A mpt-mpt VC doesn't work.  Consider what happens if two machines 
each send a packet at the same time.  How does the receiver sort 
the cell stream into 2 packets if they arrive on the same VC? 

(AAL3/4 might work if you cooridinated allocation of the multiplexing 
info.)