Re: [multrans] How does the receiver initially acquire the <Source, Group> address pair?

"Lee, Yiu" <Yiu_Lee@Cable.Comcast.com> Mon, 02 May 2011 23:10 UTC

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From: "Lee, Yiu" <Yiu_Lee@Cable.Comcast.com>
To: Tom Taylor <tom111.taylor@bell.net>, "multrans@ietf.org" <multrans@ietf.org>
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In our case, the mapping is regional base and static. It is provisioned
out-of-band to the receivers.

On 5/2/11 2:36 PM, "Tom Taylor" <tom111.taylor@bell.net> wrote:

>I am thinking of the IPTV case.
>
>I need help in understanding how receiver address acquisition works in
>the absence of v4/v6 transition issues. I assume the receiver gets the
>address pair from some sort of signalling exchange with a network node
>(please verify), but would this node be located in the core network
>serving the receiver or hang off the backbone network beyond that (which
>is where I assume the sources lie)?
>
>Of course, in some cases the addresses could be configured by management
>action.
>
>Tom Taylor
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