IPv6 multicast on the 6bone

[Brian Haberman]

Isabelle,
     There are only a few code bases that have any IPv6 multicast
support as Francis pointed out.  In addition, IBM and Lixia Zhang's
lab at UCLA have implementations of PIM-DM for IPv6.  Microsoft has
support for MLD for workstations.  So your best bet right now is to
try and work with one of those code bases.

     One of the work items that came out of this IETF is to bolster 
the work going on with multicast and IPv6.  Hopefully, I will have
additional news in the coming weeks about this effort.

Brian Haberman


Isabelle Labbe wrote:
> 
> I would like to find out more about the current state of IPv6 multicast
> routing on the 6bone?  My understanding is that very little
> implementations of IPv6 multicast routing protocols (e.g. PIMv6) exist.
> Our site connection to the 6bone is done through a Cisco IPv6 router.
> Cisco has currently no provision for IPv6 multicast routing.  If I wish
> to test an IPv6 multicast application on the 6bone, is it possible at
> all through tunneling? Are there any package such as mrouted (used on
> the mbone) that has been ported to IPv6? What are the current solutions
> to forward IPv6 multicast on the 6bone?
> 

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