All things related to multicast

[Tim Stevenson <>]

Fair point. Not to go off on a sales pitch, but some of the Cisco 
stackable switches (eg 3750) support MLD snooping as well.

Tim

At 11:14 AM 5/20/2006, Alan Crosswell exclaimed:
> 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
> > Cisco Systems, http://www.cisco.com
> > IP Phone: 408-526-6759
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Tim Stevenson, 

Routing & Switching CCIE #5561
Technical Marketing Engineer, Catalyst 6500
Cisco Systems, http://www.cisco.com
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