In light of the recent questions about firewalls and multicasting I think
this may be of interest. I've personally not read it yet.
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Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 14:46:39 -0500
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Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-finlayson-mcast-firewall-00.txt
A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
Title : IP Multicast and Firewalls
Author(s) : R. Finlayson
Filename : draft-finlayson-mcast-firewall-00.txt
Pages : 6
Date : 05-Mar-98
Many organizations use a firewall computer that acts as a security gateway
between the public Internet and their private, internal 'intranet'. In
this document, we discuss the issues surrounding the traversal of IP
multicast traffic across a firewall, and describe possible ways in which a
firewall can implement and control this traversal. We also explain why
some firewall mechanisms - such as SOCKS - that were designed specifically
for unicast traffic, are less appropriate for multicast.
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