All things related to multicast

[Leonard Giuliano <>]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, [iso-8859-1] Luís Marta wrote:

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-) ----- Original Message -----
-) From: "Leonard Giuliano" 
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-) Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 7:50 PM
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-) >The better question may be why do you want incongruence in the first
-) >place?  If you are going through the trouble of creating these p2p VLANs,
-) >why not let unicast use them?  You might be better off creating this
-) >topology and letting unicast and mcast flow congruently through it.
-)
-) Thanks for everyone's anwers.
-)
-) I have many unicast vlans, but i only want one mcast vlan. At any point, 
the
-) chosen path by OSPF (and therefore PIM) is the unicast vlan interface, and
-) the only way for me to make mcast traffic go through the right vlan is to
-) use static mroutes, right?

Or MBGP, but like I said, that will be tricky making BGP behave like an
IGP.

-) Unfortunately i don't think IOS and JUNOS implement MISIS...
-)

JUNOS supports MISIS.

-) Does the PIM Snooping mechanism on Foundry switches work well among
-) different vendors routers? I mean, does it really work? :)
-)
-) Luís Marta.
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-) FCCN-WAN
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