All things related to multicast

[Brent Sweeny <>]

the Internet2 NOC also put together a 
how-to-connect-your-multicast-network-to-Internet2 cookbook many years ago, 
with a large list of other references at the end. see it at 
http://noc.net.internet2.edu/i2network/multicast-cookbook.html

On 5/30/2008 1:53 PM, Peter John Hill wrote:
> Something like this:
> http://multicast.internet2.edu/MulticastCookBook.shtml
>
> you definitely want to do pim-sm and anycast RPs with msdp running 
> between the RPs... You'll also end up running multiprotocol bgp with 
> address family ipv4-multicast. You'll msdp peer with your providers RP.
>
> You should figure out what your glop address range is for your as.
>
> http://www.multicast.org.uk/address-tools/glop-calc.cgi?asn=AS3172
>
> You can they make sure your internal servers use this address..
>
> When it comes to enabling it on the WAN, are you talking about ten gig 
> circuits or t1s?
>
> What other questions do you have?
>
> peter
>
>
> On May 30, 2008, at 8:26 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