Re: Native Multicast (Was: Re: Contest! )

[jhall () UU NET (Jeremy Hall)]

My understanding is that there are sync problems with deploying mcast
native. Most notedly when BGP uses memory and cpu and then
pruning/mrouting also wishes to use the cpu. I haven't personally
experimented with this, but have heard interesting stories about egress
problems near borders.

_J

Robert Laughlin said:
> I am also considering enabling multicast routing, I would appreciate
> hearing more about this as well.
>
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> On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Eric Kozowski wrote:
>
> > > PS: The real prize should go to the *next* person to post useful technical
> > > content.
> >
> > OK, I'll take a stab at it, although it'll be in the form of a technical
> > question, which will hopefully draw technical content/answers.
> >
> > I'm getting ready to run some native multicast on our backbone, mainly as
> > an experiment in replacing our existing set of DVRMP/MRouted tunnels.
> >
> > Equipment is cisco 7XXX and 4500, with a 2501 CPE router (my home
> > connection).  Most are running some flavor of 11.2, with one or two still
> > running 11.1.
> >
> > I'm looking for tips and suggestions from folks who are actually running
> > native multicast in a cisco environment.
> >
> > While I've been getting help from Dave Meyer (Thanks, Dave!), I figure that
> > others could benefit from the same information, hence my posting here.
> >
> > -Eric