[c-nsp] multicast bringing big irons to their knees?

[Jared Mauch]

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On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 09:03:05AM -0700, Christian MacNevin wrote:
> Hi
> I've only got the most superficial of ideas what's going on with this  
> network, but i've been asked if there's any particular reason
> some Foundry switches would be being brought to their knees every time  
> mcast is switched on in a network. 65s, 3750s and Netscreens
> all handle it fine.
> Given Foundry's marketing, they dobrag that everything's handled in  
> port-based ASICs, but obviously it sounds like this stuff is going
> to the processor. Maybe it's PIM Sniffing not supported in hardware, not 
> sure.
> Anyway, sorry for the amazing vagary here, but it's all I've got right  
> now. Any thoughts?
> Cheers
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