All things related to multicast

[Hank Nussbacher <>]

At 23:45 11/06/2008 +0300, Zenon Mousmoulas wrote:


> On 11 Ιουν 2008, at 10:32 ΜΜ, Niels den Otter wrote:
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> > Hello Pekka,
> >
> > Pekka Savola wrote:
> > > We've for years now installed policers in our upstream/peering
> > > interfaces which rate-limit SAP to 1 mbit/s.  That has saved our
> > > and our
> > > customers' backsides a couple of times already -- without crippling
> > > the
> > > real use of SAP.
> >
> > Would you happen to have an example Junos configuration to do this
> > in global configuration?
>
> Not sure about JunOS, but I believe this should do the trick for Cisco
> IOS:
>
> ip access-list standard SAP-mcast-group
>  permit host 224.2.127.254
>  deny any any
> exit
>
> interface X/Y.Z
>  ip multicast rate-limit in group-list SAP-mcast-group 1000
> exit
>
> This should be applied at (interfaces facing) the edges of your
> multicast network. It effectively means that any sources the router
> sees with a rate exceeding 1000 kbps, it will not forward downstream.

Sorry for digging up old emails (4 years later) but due to the latest SAP 
storm I just went and tried to check
  ip multicast rate-limit in group-list SAP-mcast-group 1000
on 12.2(33)SRE6 and got:
This command is no longer supported

Ideas?

Thanks,
Hank


> Sorry if it's slightly off-topic.
>
> Best regards,
> Zenon Mousmoulas
> GRNET