Installing and Administering Internet Services

318 Chapter 9
Configuring mrouted
Sources for Additional Information
Sources for Additional Information
RFC documents
Additional information pertaining to mrouted and IP multicast routing
can be obtained from the following RFC (Request for Comment)
documents. Refer to the section “Military Standards and Request for
Comment Documents” within chapter 1 of this manual for information
on accessing these documents:
• RFC 1075: “Distance-Vector Multicast Routing Protocol”
This RFC has been obsoleted and has no successor. Therefore, it is no
longer a precise specification of the DVMRP implementation
obtainable in the public domain or provided by Hewlett-Packard.
• RFC 1112: “Host Extensions for IP Multicasting”
Other Documents
The following sources of information neither originated at
Hewlett-Packard nor are maintained by Hewlett-Packard. As such, their
content and availability are subject to change without notice.
• The MBONE FAQ
The MBONE (Multicast Backbone) is a virtual network implemented
on top of the physical Internet. It supports routing of IP multicast
packets. It originated as a cooperative, volunteer effort to support
experimentation in audio and video teleconferencing over the
Internet.
This document can be retrieved, via ftp, at: isi.edu. The location of
this file is /mbone/faq.txt.
An HTML-formatted version of the MBONE FAQ can be found at:
http://www.research.att.com/mbone-faq.html.