[nsp] Speaking of Multicast

[Vincent De Keyzer]

Hello again,

I could get the set-up of yesterday working in the lab, going from Fa0/0 to
Fa0/1 on a 2620.

Now I am doing a field trial, and it does not work as good - maybe because
there are switches in between?

Do I need to configure something on the Catalysts that transport the
dedicated VLAN? There is only one receiver, so I don't need to multicast on
the switch itself. The switch are there because that's the way to go from
the router to the decoder.

Fa0/0.519 on
Cisco 7206VXR----------3524----------3524-----------2924---------Decoder
             .1Q trunk     .1Q trunk     .1Q trunk       VLAN519

Vincent


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net 
> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of 
> Kristofer Sigurdsson
> Sent: mardi 18 mai 2004 16:50
> To: christopher_a_kane at bankone.com
> Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [nsp] Speaking of Multicast
> 
> 
> christopher_a_kane at bankone.com, Tue, May 18, 2004 at 
> 10:45:56AM -0400 :
> > I was wondering what lessons some people have learned. Not 
> in regards 
> > to
> > implementation or design but rather, operations support. 
> What are some of 
> > the common problems seen (mostly application related?), what 
> > troubleshooting methods have worked best, etc...
> 
> Some (older) switches tend to go haywire if they have many 
> multicast clients.  Apart from that, it has been a pretty easy ride.
> 
> Over here, the main "problem" however is the same as with 
> IPv6.  It's implemented, it's working...but nobody's 
> interested in using it. :)  About 99.99% of our traffic is 
> plain old unicast IPv4.
>