All things related to multicast

[Peter John Hill <>]

I likely would not suggest it, but you could make a gre tunnel between  
the two campuses and run pim across it....

scary


On Mar 24, 2009, at 11:57 AM, Mike McBride (mmcbride) wrote:

> Yes, that's what I'm saying, with a backbone running mvpn. Or simply
> native multicast transit across the multicast enabled Internet.
> Otherwise you'll need a manual tunnel from campus to campus.
>
> mike
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gurcharan S. Khanna 
> > [mailto:]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:31 AM
> > To: Mike McBride (mmcbride)
> > Cc: wg-multicast
> > Subject: Re: DVTS bridging
> >
> > mike,
> >
> > thanks for the link. unfortunately, even the FAQ is a bit
> > over my head, so i am not sure how to interpret it. are you
> > saying, that if i have a multicast enabled campus here and,
> > say a multicast enabled campus in Kosovo, that, given that
> > Cisco equipment is involved, that this software deployment
> > would allow multicast packets to travel from one campus to
> > the other? at least in general principle?
> >
> > if so, i will try to get our guys to look into it in more
> > details but i just want to make sure this is the function
> > envisioned and that this would be a preferred alternative to
> > setting up an independent multicast bridge for specific apps.
> >
> > -gurcharan
> >
> > Mike McBride (mmcbride) wrote:
> > > > PS oh, and, what is multicast vpn from cisco? is that
> > something that
> > > > would act as a bridge for any app? -gsk
> > >
> > > Dynamic PE-PE tunneling.
> > http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6651/ 
> > products_ios_protocol_optio
> > > n_
> > > home.html
> > >
> > > mike
> > >
> > >
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