RE: Alternatives when doing multicast over non multicast

From: simon hart (simon.hart@btinternet.com)
Date: Tue Mar 08 2005 - 14:16:40 GMT-3


Ivan,

Not tried option 1, but option 2 with multicast helper would certainly work

Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of Ivan
Ostre
Sent: 08 March 2005 15:12
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Alternatives when doing multicast over non multicast network

Hello group,

I was thinking about alternatives when doing multicast over non multicast
netwok. Let's say like this:

R1----------R2-----------R3---------R4--clients

R1 is a multicast source while R3 does not "speak" multicast. I've tried
using
GRE tunnel over between R2 and R4, and that works ok. Since this is a
preparation for the lab, I've tried to find some alternatives. I was
thinking
about following:

1) do destination nat on R2 to some address on R4 and then back to multicast
address on R4 so the clients would receive multicast

2) use a multicast helper to transport multicast trough R3 as a broadcast.

Did anyone tried that? Does it work?

Regards,
Ivan



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