[c-nsp] Multicast on a 6500 running ios

[Dale W. Carder]

On Jan 29, 2007, at 11:31 AM, Tim Stevenson wrote:
>
> In any case, you can use snooping querier by configuring an SVI with
> the querier & an IP address, but leaving the interface in the "shut"
> state, preventing any L3 switching happening on that VLAN. The
> querier will still work in this case.

Really?!  We had asked the TAC if something like that would work,
but they didn't think so.

We are seeing issues in the data center where more H/A solutions want
multicast between the hosts (through multiple switches), but there
couldn't be any routing out of that vlan.  This would be perfect.

Dale

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Dale W. Carder - Network Engineer
University of Wisconsin at Madison
http://net.doit.wisc.edu/~dwcarder