On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 09:24:39AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

 > Yes, I know gif works with cisco. The question is whenever this works with
 > cisco's multicast tunnels. If using gif for multicast requires too much
 > hackery on the other side (I talked about cisco but this can be true for any
 > router) then peoples may just punt and use something else.
 > I know, for one, that if changes are needed on the cisco side for multicast to
 > work with gif, I will get back a "get a machine with a working mrouted".

`gif' uses the *same* encapsulation as ip_mroute.c's VIFF_TUNNEL mechanism.

If you want to be absolutely sure, please, by all means, try it (set up
a gif tunnel, and use only phyint keywords in /etc/mrouted.conf).

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