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opened the concert by saying, "I wanna say a special welcome to everyone that's, uh, climbed into the
Internet tonight and, uh, has got into the M-bone. And I hope it doesn't all collapse."
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have disabled IP multicast due to concerns regarding bandwidth tracking and billing, the Mbone was created to connect multicast-capable networks over the existing
Internet infrastructure.
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Internet. Many older routers do not support
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must be set up on both ends: multicast packets are encapsulated in unicast packets and sent through a tunnel. Mbone uses a small subset of the
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