Re: Some SM observations

[Cheng-Yin Lee <leecy@nortelnetworks.com>]

Tony Ballardie wrote:
> umm, still I don't think this is a practical approach. My suggestion was
> just to
> let the recvr domain (boundary) take care of it. The source doesn't need to
> know it is becoming the root of a src tree for this (or any) receiver. 
How does rcvrs know when to join a new tree? BTW a src needs to know
when to use the new tree (which maybe another shared tree).

> At least
> the way it is now the data gets to the rcvr domain, albeit via the wrong
> path for a src.
> The recvr domain can then take steps to getting it via its preferred path.
i think the problem is we are attempting to use pt2pt policy routing in
mpt2mpt routing.

cyl