All things related to multicast

[Brent Sweeny <>]

well, a beginning (at this moment for Cisco only, and oriented toward
setting up mbgp, msdp, and pim towards Abilene from a connector) is at
the "multicast cookbook" pages on the Abilene NOC website, 
http://www.abilene.iu.edu/mccook.html

On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 03:36:48PM -0400, Bob Riddle wrote:
> perhaps we could put some "how to configure mulitcast for your XXXX 
> router" up on the wg working pages?  Any volunteers willing to 
> contribute the story on how they configured multicast?
> 
> Bill Owens wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 04:24:36PM -0400, Richard Mavrogeanes wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>My two cents:
> >>
> >>Multicast is not used more often because:
> >>
> >>1. The default condition of virtually all routers is to disable multicast.
> >>   
> >>
> >. . .
> >
> >All true, and I certainly know that multicast is not an easy thing to 
> >configure, manage and repair (or even understand!) but I'm intentionally 
> >preaching the choir here. I wasn't asking why Joe Public doesn't use 
> >multicast more often, I was asking why *we* don't use it more often. 
> >My application, weekly recurring conference calls with a standing group of 
> >people, all at Internet2 sites, all of them advanced network users, seems 
> >like an ideal place to use multicast a/v tools - and yet, we don't. There 
> >must be dozens of similar conference calls every week; heck, Internet2 has 
> >their own conference system, and they wouldn't have bothered if they 
> >didn't use it a lot. Isn't there something wrong with that picture? 
> >Bill.