All things related to multicast

[Greg Shepherd <>]

On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Greg Shepherd wrote:

>
> Wow, must I take the blame!?!?! ;-)
>
> First, I don't know hwy there bi-dir is config'd there.

Wow, did I write that? Okay, I'm off to get more coffee...

> Second, RP services are for YOUR PIM domain only. Auto-RP annoucements
> should be confined within your network using border/boundry filters, not
> TTL.
>
> Greg
>
> On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Mark Quigley wrote:
>
> > I apologize if this message was sent to an improper destination; I just 
> > came
> > back from the Joint Techs workshop in Boulder and wanted to ask the
> > following question about Multicast on Abilene.
> >
> > At present, we has multicast configured on our border and on most IP
> > segments within our LAN. We are an all-Cisco shop (7507's on the border,
> > 6500's in the core, and 1900's, 2900's, and 2950's at the access layer). 
> > We
> > are not having any problems taking advantages of multicast services on
> > Abilene. My
> > concern is the plethora of mroutes showing up within our LAN.
> >
> > When multicast was first configured back in 1999, Greg Sheppard assisted 
> > me
> > in getting the folowing config setup on the border:
> > ip multicast-routing distributed
> > ip multicast cache-headers rtp
> > ..snip..
> > ip pim bidir-enable
> > ip pim send-rp-announce Loopback0 scope 255
> > ip pim send-rp-discovery scope 255
> > ip pim register-rate-limit 10
> > ip msdp peer 198.48.91.25
> > ip msdp sa-filter out 198.48.91.25 list 110
> > ip msdp cache-sa-state
> >
> > My concern is the "255" settings shown above... is there a preferred 
> > setting
> > for the scope (on Abilene)? I suspect the 255 is a bit over-engineered. 
> > Your
> > assistance is greatly appreciated.
> > Regards,
> > Mark
> > p.s. If this was sent to you in error, please forgive me and forward to an
> > appropriate individual. URLs to multicast recipes are also welcome. Thanks
> > again.
> >
> > -
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> >
> >
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