All things related to multicast

[Joel Jaeggli <>]

we don't see enough individual joiners from any subnet where we have
shared hubs (our dorms mostly) to crush any particular segment yet, KazaA
and gnutella are responsible for that happening.

joelja

On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Tim Ward wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I'm tired of users with shared ports preventing a 100% L3 multicast
> deployment on our campus.  More than once I've thought about just
> turning it on everywhere, to all of our 300 or so subnets and let the
> chips fall where they may.  My suspicion is that there won't be too
> big of an effect on the shared 10 users, unless there is some highly
> desirable multicast content.
>
> So what do you all think the repercussions will be in terms of network
> operation if we take this step?
>
> Network description:
> 6509 based L3 GE backbone, feeding 3500s and 2900s, with users connected
> to 3500s and 2900s and still some shared 10 hubs.  Roughly 50/50 mix of
> users on hubs and users on switches.  We ping all of the hubs and switches
> we support (which is darn near all of them in the comm closets) every 2
> minutes to check for reachability.
>
> Tim
>

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