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Not supporting it because why though? IP multicast routing requires end-to-end state for each (source , group). Further, the boxes on the market for doing multi
by yusyusyus 11y ago
Not supporting it because why though? IP multicast routing requires end-to-end state for each (source , group). Further, the boxes on the market for doing multicast (not a little GPCPU router) have limitations concerning how they do multicast within the box that makes scaling multicast a real pain (basically, internally, they will send forwarding engines traffic they don't need and choke up there because it runs out of internal ways to express the separate streams).
Some of this can be shortcut by tunneling techniques, but it is just masking the situation and adding another layer of network complexity (in an area where humans still try to manage/troubleshoot mostly by hand).