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["THOMAS, PHIL" <>]

Title: Re: Designing Multicast Domain for Academia

I this exists please pass on;
I could really use this info also.

Thanks.


Philip Thomas
Network Services
330-672-0387

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On 5/30/08 11:26 AM, "Tyrone Kelly" <> wrote:

> Hello ALL,
>
> I was looking for advice, perhaps a multicast cookbook, as me and my
> colleagues are tasked with enabling our Wan to support Multicast.  I
> operate a transport wan that many higher Ed institutions use for ISP
> services.  We have 3 tier one ISPs that we peer with and we're connected
> to I2 and are on transit rail.  '
> Our impetus has been several request from institutions to enable
> multicast for the sake of receiving some multicast feeds like the
> Philadelphia Harmonic Symphony as well as other media.  I feel that many
> institutions may become multicast sources as well.
> Challenge one is obvious setting a Multicast peering relationship up
> with another AS as well as getting multicast enabled at the instituion's
> campus level. I have been researching and modeling and ASM/SSM ANYCAST
> AUTO-RP  environment and I peer multiple RP's with MSDP.  Is this a
> consistent practice in live networks?  How does one guard against
> multiple ASM channels and receiving the wrong multicast , if possible?
> Is there a cookbook available?
>
>
> THANKS
>
>
> Tyrone D. Kelly
>
>
> debbie fligor wrote:
>
>> For anyone else that doesn't have an Apple SE handy, mine suggested  
>> this:
>>
>>> The best thing to do is to file a new bug report at
>>> http://bugreport.apple.com .  It will be set as a duplicate, but that
>>> becomes really obvious in  the bug report.
>>>
>>> FWIW, [my bug report] it's set to a P1, but for the Next Major OS  
>>> (after the one we're currently working on, that is :-()  There are  
>>> currently 4 duplicates and three people have chimed in with impact  
>>> information.
>>>
>>>
>> On May 28, 2008, at 10:21, debbie fligor wrote:
>>
>>> In discussion with my Apple SE this morning, it looks like IGMPv3  
>>> may not even be in the next major OS release (10.6 I assume)  -- the  
>>> main reason he can figure out looking at the bug report he filed for  
>>> me is that in the multiple years that bug has been open, only 2 or 3  
>>> people have chimed in that it was important for them.
>>>
>>> Apparently which things like this get implemented is often  
>>> determined by user request/industry need. So if you would like to  
>>> see it, contact your Apple SE and tell them you want it and why you  
>>> need it and how important it is for you.
>>>
>>> Even if I didn't want to test switches with Macs, if we want to go  
>>> to IGMPv3 on our networks, we need all the clients on a given net  
>>> playing with the same IGMP level, unless I misunderstand how the  
>>> backwards compatibility works.
>>>
>>>
>>> -----
>>> -debbie
>>> Debbie Fligor, n9dn       Network Engineer, CITES, Univ. of Il
>>> email:          <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/fligor>
>>>                   "My turn."  -River Tam
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> -----
>> -debbie
>> Debbie Fligor, n9dn       Network Engineer, CITES, Univ. of Il
>> email:          <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/fligor>
>>                    "My turn."  -River Tam
>>
>>
>>
>>