Re: Multicast in draft version 5 comments

[Caralyn Brown <[e-mail]>]

Indeed.  This sounds right to me.  I can fix up the Circuit multicast
with no problem.  I guess the daft update has been out there so long, I just
assumed both were in the original.  Thanks for pointing out that this is
not the case.  

I'll fix the multicast thing.  However, I don't have the exact reference
from the forum at the moment so it will take me a while to come up with
the correct reference.  Prepare for rev 6!!!


c

On Wed,  3 January, James Watt ([e-mail]) wrote:

> Folks:
>   Dlcmi looks too much like Dlci for my over-rested eyes. Now that I'm
> unconfused:
> 
> 1) frDlcmiMulticast was in RFC 1315 (and was read-write there) and
>    doesn't need any changes.  It basically tells you whether the 
>    attached network can be assumed to be able to do non-unicast VCs.
> 
> 2) frCircuitMulticast was added this time round and is a per-VC
>    object that tells you what the _particular_ VC will do with a frame.
> 
>    Alan's proposal is to make this new object match reality, viz:
> 	a) have values for unicast, p2mp and mp2mp (did I forget one ?) and
>         b) have a MAX-ACCESS of read-write.
> 
>    As Fred pointed out, if a given DTE doesn't want to use anything but
>    unicast, it can use the WRITE-SYNTAX clause to shrink the valid range.
> 
>    I suppose we should add a refeference clause pointing to the appropriate
>    section of the document that defines the FR multicast support so other
>    folks can figure out why this got done.
> 
> Did I miss anything ?  If not, this sounds like a reasonable change.
> 
> Regards,
> -james
> 
> ps I seem to have misplaced Alan's message with the updated object
>    definition ready for Caralyn to cut and paste...
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