I-D ACTION:draft-armitage-ion-cluster-size-01.txt
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A Revised Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Issues affecting MARS Cluster Size Author(s) : G. Armitage Filename : draft-armitage-ion-cluster-size-01.txt Pages : 12 Date : 09/09/1996 IP multicast over ATM currently uses the MARS model [1] to manage the use of ATM pt-mpt SVCs for IP multicast packet forwarding. The scope of any given MARS services is the MARS Cluster - typically the same as an IPv4 Logical IP Subnet (LIS). Current IP/ATM networks are usually architected with unicast routing and forwarding issues dictating the sizes of individual LISes. However, as IP multicast is deployed as a service, the size of a LIS will only be as big as a MARS Cluster can be. This document provides a qualitative look at the issues constraining a MARS Cluster's size, including the impact of VC limits in switches and NICs, geographical distribution of cluster members, and the use of VC Mesh or MCS modes to support multicast groups. Internet-Drafts are available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username "anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, type "cd internet-drafts" and then "get draft-armitage-ion-cluster-size-01.txt". A URL for the Internet-Draft is: ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-armitage-ion-cluster-size-01.txt Internet-Drafts directories are located at: o Africa Address: ftp.is.co.za (196.4.160.8) o Europe Address: nic.nordu.net (192.36.148.17) Address: ftp.nis.garr.it (193.205.245.10) o Pacific Rim Address: munnari.oz.au (128.250.1.21) o US East Coast Address: ds.internic.net (198.49.45.10) o US West Coast Address: ftp.isi.edu (128.9.0.32) Internet-Drafts are also available by mail. Send a message to: mailserv@ds.internic.net. In the body type: "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-armitage-ion-cluster-size-01.txt". NOTE: The mail server at ds.internic.net can return the document in MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with "multipart" MIME messages (i.e., documents which have been split up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on how to manipulate these messages. For questions, please mail to Internet-Drafts@ietf.org Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft.
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