From: Brian Haberman (haberman_at_no.spam)
Date: Wed Mar 20 2002 - 07:15:21 PST
Dave Thaler wrote:
>
> Antonio Querubin writes:
> > If it is how about just defining mapped multicast addresses already?
> [...]
> > | 80 bits | 16 | 32 bits |
> > +--------------------------------------+--------------------------+
> > |0000..............................0000|FFFF|IPv4 multicast group |
> > +--------------------------------------+----+---------------------+
>
> This has been discussed before, and the above format is illegal, since
> all multicast addresses must begin with 0xFF, not 0x00.
>
> I think someone did once propose a format which was out of the legal
> multicast space.
And one of the biggest issues we had with that proposal was that there
was no easy way to map an IPv4 scoped multicast address into a
corresponding IPv6 scoped multicast address.
Brian
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