IP Multicast and Firewalls

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Publisher: IETF
Doc Type: Informational
Pages: 12
Abstract: 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. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
Publication Date: 1999-05-01
Status Note: Informational
DOI: 10.17487/RFC2588
Link: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC2588
Author(s): Ross Finlayson
Keyword(s): IPSEC, Routers, Traffic

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Bibliographic Reference(s)

Finlayson, R., "The UDP Multicast Tunneling Protocol" , Work in Progress. EXTERNAL
Djahandari, K., Sterne, D. F., "An MBone Proxy for an Application Gateway Firewall" IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 1997. EXTERNAL
Freed, N. and K. Carosso, "An Internet Firewall Transparency Requirement", Work in Progress. EXTERNAL
Fenner, B., "Domain Wide Multicast Group Membership Reports" , Work in Progress. EXTERNAL
Chouinard, D., "SOCKS V5 UDP and Multicast Extensions" , Work in Progress. EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 1112 [Active*]
IETF RFC 1889 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 1928 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2326 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 2327 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 2365 [Active*]

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IETF RFC 3170 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6272 [Active*]