[11972] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Native Multicast (Was: Re: Contest! )
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Laughlin)
Tue Aug 26 07:46:39 1997
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 07:35:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Laughlin <robert@portal.dx.net>
To: Eric Kozowski <kozowski@structured.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199708260530.WAA20842@teufel.structured.net>
I am also considering enabling multicast routing, I would appreciate
hearing more about this as well.
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On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Eric Kozowski wrote:
> >PS: The real prize should go to the *next* person to post useful technical
> >content.
>
> OK, I'll take a stab at it, although it'll be in the form of a technical
> question, which will hopefully draw technical content/answers.
>
> I'm getting ready to run some native multicast on our backbone, mainly as
> an experiment in replacing our existing set of DVRMP/MRouted tunnels.
>
> Equipment is cisco 7XXX and 4500, with a 2501 CPE router (my home
> connection). Most are running some flavor of 11.2, with one or two still
> running 11.1.
>
> I'm looking for tips and suggestions from folks who are actually running
> native multicast in a cisco environment.
>
> While I've been getting help from Dave Meyer (Thanks, Dave!), I figure that
> others could benefit from the same information, hence my posting here.
>
> -Eric
>
>
