[j-nsp] Multicast Traffic over L2VPN

[Tima Maryin]

Well it's not about multicast rather about transmitting multicast over VPLS.
This is good article about it.

http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/junos/topics/concept/ng-vpls-p2mp-lsp-forwarding-overview.html



On 30.01.2013 0:00, Paul Stewart wrote:
> Can you explain this a bit more?   Sorry, this has me really curious and I
> obviously need to get more up to speed on multicast because we are moving
> towards IPTV shortly ;)
>
> Here's the routing instance that is now working:
>
> VLAN69-xxxxxxx-Headend {
>      instance-type vpls;
>      vlan-id 69;
>      interface ge-1/0/5.69;
>      route-distinguisher xx.xx.100.84:69;
>      vrf-target target:xxxx:9069;
>      protocols {
>          vpls {
>              site-range 3;
>              no-tunnel-services;
>              site xxxxxxxx-DAC {
>                  site-identifier 1;
>              }
>          }
>      }
> }
>
> We didn't configure anything specific to multicast.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tima Maryin [mailto:timamaryin at mail.ru]
> Sent: January-29-13 2:54 PM
> To: Paul Stewart
> Cc: juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [j-nsp] Multicast Traffic over L2VPN
>
> On 29.01.2013 22:09, Paul Stewart wrote:
>>
>> We converted the path from a routing-instance type of L2VPN to that of
>> VPLS and now things are working fine.
>
>
> Where you can also configure p2mp LSP for multicast traffic.