All things related to multicast

[Marshall Eubanks <>]

Can you always assume that there is one box behind each switch  
interface ?

Regards
Marshall

On Oct 1, 2008, at 2:09 PM, Julian Y. Koh wrote:

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> At 12:54 -0500 10/1/2008, Dan Oachs wrote:
> > The easiest thing we have found so far is to query all the  
> > switches  and
> > ask them what multicast  groups are in use.  We happen to have HP
> > switches in all our buildings and grab the multicast info from SNMP  
> > but
> > I assume any managed switch could do the same.
>
> We have Cisco switches, and this is how we've been doing it as  
> well.  Our
> multicast TV distribution system also collects client-level stats  
> via a
> unicast control channel back to the license server.
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