Author: Rene Molenaar
Multicast PIM Bootstrap Router

Scenario You are a network engineer and responsible for the main network of Gotham City. Multicast will be needed to send video replays throughout the city, and to decrease network load your boss has decided that you need…
Read More »Multicast Auto-RP Listener

Scenario Gotham City once again needs your help, one of your colleagues decided to change the configuration on all routers to “sparse-mode” instead of “sparse-dense-mode”. Some villain hacked your routers last week and you didn’t notice, the command…
Read More »Multicast Auto-RP

Scenario You are a network engineer and responsible for the main network of Gotham City. Multicast will be needed to send video replays throughout the city, and to decrease network load your boss has decided that you need…
Read More »GNS3 Performance

Every now and then I get questions about GNS3 performance, especially people who run into trouble because their cpu skyrockets to 100%. There is an easy fix for this, but you just need to know how…(that’s always the…
Read More »Multicast PIM NBMA Mode

Scenario As a full-time IT instructor at a high school you are always busy with innovative ideas. The school network is pretty old and has a frame-relay network, your idea is to stream old school cartoon videos on…
Read More »Multicast Tunneling

Scenario It’s your first day in the army working as a networking professional. You are sent to a small international outpost to look after the network. It’s a rather old network but they need you to install Multicast…
Read More »How To: Submit Labs

Perhaps you have some cool labs that you would like to share with us all. That would be great! There are however some guidelines about creating labs and writing layout so the quality of all our labs and…
Read More »Multicast added

Hi folks, In the weekend I added some multicast labs, i’ll be adding more later…after that i’ll be adding some IPv6, QoS and perhaps troubleshooting labs…..more to come! Thanks for all your input and support! Rene
Read More »Multicast PIM DR Election

Scenario Your have been streaming Star Trek videos by using multicast on your corporate network for quite some time without anyone noticing…recently one of your colleagues found you out…he’s going to tell your boss unless you agree to…
Read More »Multicast PIM Accept RP

Scenario Since you are a excellent network engineer at the company you are working for, the network rarely has any problems and you have plenty of spare time. One of the days you were slacking off at the…
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