All things related to multicast

[Tim Ward <>]

Whew!

Your read of it is the same as mine, Roy.  (Good? Bad?...)

Yep, we'd love the same thing now that our 20 channels of TV are running.
We'd like to limit at the network layer to something like 6 Mbps of
multicast out to the student.  Perhaps it's time for a feature request
to cisco?  The big question would be how much of a hit do the buffers on
the box take when this level is exceeded.  Shouldn't be a big deal, though.

Tim

Quoting Roy D. Hockett 
():
> Does anyone have any experience with storm control on cisco catalyst
> switches?
> 
> In reading the documentation it states that if Multicast exceeds the set
> threshold
> then the switch drops all multicast, broadcast, unicast until traffic
> goes below 
> the set threshold. Does this match people experiences?
> It looks like Storm control is an In-bound feature, not an out-bound.
> 
> I had wanted to use this feature to turn off multicast on ports
> connected 
> to hubs.
> 
> To looks like what I really want to use is the "switchport block
> multicast"
> which looks like an out-bound feature.  I would really like a feature
> that
> would allow me to throttle out bound multicast, not just block it on a
> switch
> port, does anyone know of such a feature?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Roy
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