RE: Multicast configuration on fully meshed atm network

From: Daniel Golding (dan@netrail.net)
Date: Thu Mar 22 2001 - 16:24:31 EST


From my experience, Juniper doesn't support PIM across multipoint ATM
interfaces. If you set the interfaces to be ATM point-to-point it works
great.

- Daniel Golding

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Markus Åberg (LMF) [mailto:Markus.Aberg@lmf.ericsson.se]
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 4:10 AM
> To: juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net
> Subject: RE: Multicast configuration on fully meshed atm network
>
>
> If you are doing layer3 (IP) multicasting and just using ATM as a
> transport then you don't need to play with layer2 (ATM switch)
> cell-replication multicasting.
>
> Just define the PVCs, make sure MTUs are OK and configure PIM.
> Should be running OK.
>
> ///Markus
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul Nazario [mailto:nazario@doit.wisc.edu]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 9:16 PM
> > To: juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net
> > Cc: juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net
> > Subject: Multicast configuration on fully meshed atm network
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > My first posting to this comes as a multicast configuration question.
> >
> > I'm evaluating a Juniper router. It will be in a full atm
> > mesh with 5
> > other Cisco routers.
> >
> > I'm trying to figure out how to configure this. I haven't
> > been able to get
> > PIM up and running
> > between the Juniper and the Ciscos and the juniper docs state
> > that atm vcs
> > are for unicast only.
> >
> > The interface on the Juniper is defined as a multipoint
> > interface. I've
> > looked at the multicast-vci
> > statement but there is only one supported per
> > subinterface/unit on the ATM
> > card.
> >
> > I've got a case open with JTAC and they've been very responsive but I
> > wanted to throw it out to this list to see what other ideas
> > are out there.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Paul
> >
>



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