[36135] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MBone access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Winders)
Tue Mar 27 18:25:37 2001
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 17:18:55 -0600 (CST)
From: Tim Winders <twinders@SPC.cc.tx.us>
To: Brent Sweeny <sweeny@indiana.edu>
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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Thanks, Brent. I checked out the Internet2 website
(http://www.internet2.org) but couldn't find the NOC webpage with the
"multicast cookbook" that you mention. Do you have a URL? I search and
found A LOT of references, but nothing quite like you described.
Thanks.
=== Tim
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Tim Winders, MCSE, CNE, CCNA
Associate Dean of Information Technology
South Plains College
Levelland, TX 79336
Phone: 806-894-9611 x 2369
FAX: 806-894-1549
Email: TWinders@SPC.cc.tx.us
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On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Brent Sweeny wrote:
> 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
> >
> > **********************************************
> > Tim Winders, MCSE, CNE, CCNA
> > Associate Dean of Information Technology
> > South Plains College
> > Levelland, TX 79336
> >
> > Phone: 806-894-9611 x 2369
> > FAX: 806-894-1549
> > Email: TWinders@SPC.cc.tx.us
> > **********************************************
>
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