[c-nsp] MBGP for Multicast with VRF-Lite

[Phil Mayers]

On 04/29/2011 04:43 PM, James Yunkin wrote:
> Hello,
> This one has us stumped.
> We have a 7600 running VRF-Lite and we want to run multicast in one of the VRFs. The VRF peers standard eBGP with a Juniper MPLS cloud.
> I can't seem to figure out how to exchange multicast routes with the Juniper. The "address-family ipv4 multicast" command doesn't have a VRF option, so it ends up putting the peer in global (which obviously is no good). And the "address-family ipv4 vrf<x>" doesn't have a multicast option.

> How can one send multicast routes via BGP on a VRF-Lite router?

As someone else has pointed out, can't be done on IOS.

Are you sure you need to send the multicast af? You could ask the other 
side to add:

neighbor <you> translate-update <options>