All things related to multicast

[Alan Crosswell <>]

It's not about the routers.  It's about the campus closet switches.  I
don't know anybody who can afford the cost or power requirements of
putting a 6500 in a dorm network closet.

Tim Stevenson wrote:
> FYI, Cisco Cat6500 supports IPv6 multicast routing & MLD. It also
> supports MLD snooping in the hardware, but only for MLDv2. This requires
> PFC3 (sup32 or sup720).
> 
> Tim
> 
> At 10:47 AM 5/20/2006, Richard Mavrogeanes exclaimed:
>> Alan,
>>
>> Well, the next release supports IPV6, and perhaps multicast too.
>>
>> The trouble/question is local Ethernet switch support ("snooping"
>> behavior), and I'm hoping someone has some war stories to share.  It
>> was bad enough getting the switch vendors fully onboard with IGMP, and
>> I wonder where they are with IPV6 multicast.  Obviously, IPV6 is not
>> so useful if it can't reach the end user (desktop).
>>
>> /rich
>>
>>
>>      -----Original Message-----
>>      From: Alan Crosswell 
>> [mailto:]
>>      Sent: Sat 5/20/2006 12:54 PM
>>      To: Richard Mavrogeanes
>>      Cc: 
>> 
>>      Subject: Re: IPV6 Multicast
>>
>>
>>
>>      Abiline and most of the gigapops support it.  There are some
>> issues with
>>      some international networks not yet support embedded RP. 
>> Campuses are
>>      pretty far behind.  NYU is one of the few that has done v6 multicast
>>      with NYSERNet.  In the first ever v6 multicast hands on workshop in
>>      Albuquerque a few months ago, we viewed content that was being
>> multicast
>>      from Syracuse.
>>
>>      Put it in a product and I'll have an excuse to replace my Vbrick
>> 1200's:-)
>>
>>      /a
>>
>>      Richard Mavrogeanes wrote:
>>      > I'd like to explore this group's experience with IPV6
>> multicast, in particular, what do we believe is the current state of
>> the Internet2 backbone network and what do we think is the state of
>> enterprise routers and switches to allow it?
>>      >
>>      > Looking forward to an interesting thread...
>>      >
>>      > /rich
>>      >
>>
> 
> 
> 
> Tim Stevenson, 
> 
> Routing & Switching CCIE #5561
> Technical Marketing Engineer, Catalyst 6500
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