[c-nsp] sup720 hardware accelerated multicast gre tunnels?

[Asbjorn Hojmark - Lists]

> Can gre tunnel hardware acceleration on the 720 now support
> multicast packets as well as unicast?

Yes, as of 12.2(18)SXE.

<quote>
PFC3 hardware support for IPv4 multicast over point-to-point GRE tunnels-See
this publication:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122cgcr/fint
er_c/icflogin.htm 

Note Releases earlier than Release 12.2(18)SXE supported IPv4 multicast over
point-to-point GRE tunnels in software on the MSFC. The PFC3 does not
provide hardware acceleration for tunnels configured with the tunnel key
command.
</quote>

See http://tinyurl.com/znspe

-A