All things related to multicast

[Alan Crosswell <>]

> 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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> 
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> 

Long as you turn on CGMP and use PIM sparse mode you should be OK until
it breaks:-)

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