All things related to multicast

[Tim Chown <>]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 10:00:08AM -0500, Sanchez, Juan (District) wrote:
> We have multicast working on CheckPoint, after months of pain. The
> biggest issue that we have is that it will not work of an active-active
> cluster. We are using PIM-SM with Nortel in the inside and Cisco in the
> border.
> Our solution was to install a third firewall just for multicast, any
> subnet that requires multicast is sent to this firewall. Not an ideal
> solution, but the best we could come up with. We are running NGX(R61).

This is where we're headed for PIM-SSM and for IPv6 multicast (well, it's
where we're at now, but we'd hoped to converge it...)

Tim