Multicast

Humper

I am reading the Cisco PDF on Multicast routing. I just finished reading about PIM-DM/SM and now I am onto the Auto-RP and BSR. Since this is new to me I am having a hard time understanding it, and the Cisco PDF sometimes does not do justice (they are a good review). I took a look at the Cisco website for multicast routing but what I found I was not impressed with. Has anyone here struggled with this before? If so what reading did you use that explained it in detail enough to understand? I would appreciate any links! Thanks!

mikej412

The IP Multicast Section in the Cisco IOS IP Configuration Guide Rel 12.2.pdf is probably more than you need to know for the CCNP and probably even the CCIE Written exam.

Try just the Configuring IP Multicast Routing part.

For the CCIE Lab I'm using Doyle Vol 2 and Developing IP Multicast Networks, Volume 1 by Williamson as my guide for what to study -- if it isn't in those 2 books, I just glance at the Doc CD Multicast Documentation to see what the stuff is, and then move on. If I find multicast topics in the lab workbooks that aren't in Doyle and Williamson, then I'll have to rethink this.

Working hands-on with the stuff should make it "click."

EdTheLad

My favorite multicast document.
http://www.riverstonenet.com/support/multicast/index.shtml

Humper

Thanks mike and ed!

I will take a gander!