All things related to multicast

[Peter John Hill <>]

On Nov 10, 2008, at 4:52 PM, 

 wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to understand a customer's multicast deployment  
> requirements.
> What would be the queries I should pose to a customer to be able to  
> understand
> his/her requirements wrt to providing a multicast deployment.

I started writing out a whole bunch of info, but then remembered:
http://noc.net.internet2.edu/i2network/multicast-cookbook.html

Some questions you might have are if they need source specific  
multicast... if so you need igmpv3

Most networks will want pim sparse mode. Deploy an anycast RP. Use  
either static or auto-rp, or whatever you want...

do they need interdomain multicast? in other words, do they need to  
source or receive multicast from outside of their autonomous system?  
If so, you'll need to connect them up with address-family ipvX  
multicast with M-BGP.

good luck!

peter










> Your hep is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Arut