[36130] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MBone access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brent Sweeny)
Tue Mar 27 17:35:19 2001
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 17:29:23 -0500
From: Brent Sweeny <sweeny@indiana.edu>
To: Tim Winders <twinders@SPC.cc.tx.us>
Cc: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.Nether.net>,
Marshall Eubanks <tme@21rst-century.com>,
Hank Nussbacher <hank@att.net.il>,
Toerless Eckert <eckert@cisco.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.33.0103271437170.388246-100000@barney.spc.cc.tx.us>; from twinders@SPC.cc.tx.us on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:40:06PM -0600
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I agree that the education and understanding are hard to find. It's
not entirely intuitive, esp to troubleshoot (in my opinion). However,
there are a number of decent resources around. The Abilene (Internet2)
network's NOC webpage has a list of useful resources and a "multicast
cookbook" intended to show how to configure and verify your edge router
with native multicast (for Cisco IOS; sorry, others). perhaps that'll help.
Brent Sweeny, Indiana University
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:40:06PM -0600, Tim Winders wrote:
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> > I'm curious what barriers are keeping multicast from being
> > deployed at the edges. Does your upstream not support
> > multicast connectivity, or is it an education issue in getting
> > connected?
>
> In my case... lack of understand/education. I have been reading as much
> as I can about multicasting, but I have yet to find a simple FAQ/HOW-TO
> guide on enabling my internal network for multicast. I have a mixture of
> Nortel and Cisco routers and switches. All the manuals TALK about
> multicast, but I haven't found a simple setup guide.
>
> I figure, there is no point in multicast enabling my edge/internet router
> if the rest of my network isn't multicast aware...
>
> Any thoughts? I just joined the multicast mailing list mentioned here
> earlier to hopefully learn more about the subject...
>
> === Tim
>
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> Tim Winders, MCSE, CNE, CCNA
> Associate Dean of Information Technology
> South Plains College
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