From: Packet Man (ccie2b@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Apr 04 2004 - 15:50:49 GMT-3
Ahmed,
Thanks for responding but you mis-read and misunderstood my question. I
understand about the ip multicast helper command - that's used to convert
BROADCAST traffic to MULTICAST and back.
What I was asking about is converting MULTICAST traffic to UNICAST traffic
and back.
>From: "Ahmed Mustafa" <ahmed.mustafa@sbcglobal.net>
>Reply-To: "Ahmed Mustafa" <ahmed.mustafa@sbcglobal.net>
>To: "Packet Man" <ccie2b@hotmail.com>, <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>Subject: Re: Multicast to Unicast to Multicast Conversions
>Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 11:33:25 -0700
>
>You can do it by taking three approaches. The best way to use Multicast
>helper-map commands. See below
>
>The syntax for broadcast to multicast conversion
>
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>Ip multicast helper-map broadcast
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>
>The syntax for multicast to broadcast conversion is
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>Ip multicast helper-map
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>Multicast group 239.39.39.39 is used for multicast helper address.
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>Make sure to configure "IP Directed-Broadcast Command" on a network where
>multicast to broadcast converison is done.
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>HTH
>
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>
>Ahmed
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>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Packet Man" <ccie2b@hotmail.com>
>To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 10:38 AM
>Subject: Multicast to Unicast to Multicast Conversions
>
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Since it's possible to convert Braodcast traffic to multicast and back
>to
> > Broadcast traffic so that applications that don't support mcast can be
>made
> > more scalable and network efficient, I figure there should be a way for
>for
> > mcast traffic to be converted to unicast in order to transit a network
>which
> > doesn't support multicast.
> >
> > Is there such a thing? If so, can someone point me to where's it's
> > documented on the doc cd?
> >
> > Thanks, pm
> >
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