MBone Management References

Useful Documents

MBone Overviews

Macedonia & Brutz. "MBone Provides Audio and Video Across the Internet (postscript)," IEEE Computer, Apr. 94.

Casner, Schulzrinne, & Kristol. "Frequently Asked Questions on the Multicast Backbone."

Multicast MIBs

McCloghrie & Farinacci. "Internet Group Management Protocol MIB," Internet Draft, July 94.

McCloghrie & Farinacci. "IP Multicast Routing MIB," Internet Draft, Sept. 95.

McCloghrie & Farinacci. "Protocol Independent Multicast MIB," Internet Draft, Sept. 95.

Thaler, David. "DVMRP MIB," Internet Draft, December 95.

SNMP-Capable MBone Applications

Thaler, David. "mstat man page."

Thaler, David. "NView: A Visual Framework for Network Tool Integration (postscript)," IEEE IPCCC 94.

IP Multicast/IGMP

Deering, Steve."Host Extensions for IP Multicasting," Aug. 89.

DVMRP

Waitzman, Partridge, & Deering. "Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol," RFC 1075, Nov. 88

Thyagarajan & Deering. "Hierarchical Distance-Vector Multicast Routing for the MBone (postscript)," ACM SIGCOMM 95.

MOSPF

Moy, John. "Multicast Extensions to OSPC (postscript)", RFC 1584, Mar. 94.

Moy, John. "MOSPF: Analysis and Experience," RFC 1585, Mar. 94

PIM - Protocol Independent Multicast

Estrin, et. al. "Protocol Independent Multicast (postscript)," Internet Draft, Oct. 94.

SNMP

"Design Notes for the User-based Security Model"

Note: The mrouted3.5 release contained SNMP support using SMUX. This has since been deprecated.

Rose, Marshall. "SNMP MUX Protocol and MIB", May 91.

Rose, Marshall. "Exporting MIBs for BSD UNIX", Jan. 91.

Pages on Reliable Multicast Transport Mechanisms

Multicast Transport Protocols

Bibliography Transport Protocols

SCE: Reliable Multicast Transport Service

RMP: Reliable Multicast Protocol

AFDP: Adaptive File Distribution Protocol


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Last updated February 16, 1996 -- Dave Thaler
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