MBone access

Tue Mar 27 22:29:23 UTC 2001

I agree that the education and understanding are hard to find.  It's
not entirely intuitive, esp to troubleshoot (in my opinion).  However,
there are a number of decent resources around.  The Abilene (Internet2)
network's NOC webpage has a list of useful resources and a "multicast
cookbook" intended to show how to configure and verify your edge router
with native multicast (for Cisco IOS; sorry, others).  perhaps that'll help.
	Brent Sweeny, Indiana University

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:40:06PM -0600, Tim Winders wrote:
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> > 	I'm curious what barriers are keeping multicast from being
> > deployed at the edges.  Does your upstream not support
> > multicast connectivity, or is it an education issue in getting
> > connected?
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> In my case... lack of understand/education.  I have been reading as much
> as I can about multicasting, but I have yet to find a simple FAQ/HOW-TO
> guide on enabling my internal network for multicast.  I have a mixture of
> Nortel and Cisco routers and switches.  All the manuals TALK about
> multicast, but I haven't found a simple setup guide.
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> I figure, there is no point in multicast enabling my edge/internet router
> if the rest of my network isn't multicast aware...
> 
> Any thoughts?  I just joined the multicast mailing list mentioned here
> earlier to hopefully learn more about the subject...
> 
> === Tim
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