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Administrative Address Scoping

One way of preventing groups leaking is to set up filters on the group addresses at the border routers of the region. This is implemented inside of the mrouted release, but is not terribly well-known. A group of addresses are defined as being administratively scoped, and when they reach the borders of the region they are blocked from going outside. Similarly, packets using the same group address in the outside world cannot leak inside (?).



Jon CROWCROFT
1998-12-03