Tag: multicast

Multicast Advanced

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Scenario: In an effort to load balance various multicast responsibilities across your routers, you decide to implement Cisco’s AutoRP feature along with MSDP and SSM so you can use the same IP addresses as RPs for the same…

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Multicast RPF Failure NBMA Troubleshooting

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Scenario: You are responsible for the frame relay and multicast configuration within the network. You use a lot of hub and spoke topologies and up to now you haven’t seen any problems. Yesterday one of your customers called…

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Multicast Stub & IGMP Helper

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Scenario Your career started in the 80’s as a star in a famous action show, almost 30 years later your career is even more successful as a senior networking engineer. The company you are working for broadcasts old…

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Multicast PIM Bootstrap Router

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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…

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Multicast Auto-RP Listener

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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…

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Multicast Auto-RP

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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…

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Multicast PIM NBMA Mode

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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…

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Multicast Tunneling

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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…

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Multicast PIM DR Election

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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…

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Multicast PIM Accept RP

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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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