All things related to multicast

[Jim <>]

Have you thought about using tunnel?
- build a GRE tunnel over unicast to the closest router of the OSTN
back to a mcast router
- run PIM on the GRE tunnel,
- add a muticast route pointing at the tunnel so the remote router
works with RPF check.


--Jim Li

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Mark Brochu 
<>
 wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm fairly new to this list so I apologize if this has been covered in
> an earlier thread.  We are looking to establish a multicast peering with
> our upstream ISP, and we have one application (OSTN) that a few users
> are asking for.  The users who want to view OSTN are located in an area
> that we cannot route multicast to.  Is there a recommended device/piece
> of software that can convert the multicast stream to unicast?  Or is the
> only solution to extend multicast to their location?  Any links would be
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark Brochu
> ITS, University of Hartford
>