The UDP Multicast Tunneling Protocol
draft-finlayson-umtp-09
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Expired Internet-Draft
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| Author | Dr. Ross Finlayson | ||
| Last updated | 2003-11-24 | ||
| RFC stream | (None) | ||
| Intended RFC status | (None) | ||
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| Stream | Stream state | (No stream defined) | |
| Consensus boilerplate | Unknown | ||
| RFC Editor Note | (None) | ||
| IESG | IESG state | Expired | |
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Abstract
Many Internet hosts - such as PCs - while capable of running multicast applications, cannot access the MBone (or other wide-area multicast network) because the router(s) that connect them to the Internet do not yet support IP multicast routing. The 'UDP Multicast Tunneling Protocol' (UMTP) enables such a host to establish an 'ad hoc' connection to the MBone by tunneling multicast UDP datagrams inside unicast UDP datagrams. By using UDP, this tunneling can be implemented as a 'user level' application, without requiring changes to the host's operating system.
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