All things related to multicast

[Marshall Eubanks <>]

Hello;

On May 20, 2006, at 2:09 PM, 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).

Since MLD2 maps to IGMP3, I think that that's good.

Regards
Marshall

> 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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