Tag: multicast

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…