All things related to multicast

["Mark Brochu" <>]

I want to thank all who offered their insight into this problem.  My
first step will be to use Jim's suggestion and use a smaller router
running PIM over GRE to our 6500 switch...

Thanks!

Regards,

-Mark 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim 
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Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 11:25 AM
To: Mark Brochu
Cc: 

Subject: Re: Multicast to Unicast conversion

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
>