All things related to multicast

[Tsegreda Beyene <>]

Hi Alan,

comment inline please:

At 02:26 PM 11/8/2002 -0500, Alan Crosswell wrote:
> Anybody have experience with this?  Is this what I want to use in lieu
> of the ability to do PIM snooping?

No. Cisco does not do PIM snooping.

> I have a dual-star L2 topology using
Not that this will not work..I prefer point-to-point as opposed to dual star.

> Catalyst 6509 switches which my routers are each connected to.  Right
> now I have IGMP snooping disabled

You should always enable IGMP snooping on the 6500..If you disable it
you are basically disabling hardware switching.

> on these switches since it seemed to
> interfere with multicast connectivity and didn't make sense since the
> only devices on the switch are routers so the only IGMP to snoop would be
> router advertisements.
>
> Maybe I should just not touch anything.  It's sort of working today:-)

I will forward your e-mail to appropriate people and they will help you out.

Thanks.

Best Regards,

Tsege

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