Re: Multicast routing over a Non Multicast network

From: Cisco-Engineer.com Team (ciscosurplus@gmail.com)
Date: Tue May 22 2007 - 11:56:49 ART

Dan, thanks for the link, but my understading was that this facility is used
when the end nodes are not capable, in my case the cloud is non multicast
capable, and the end systems are fully multicast enabled.

On 22/05/07, Dan C <cdan2154@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Graham,
>
> You can use ip multicast helper-map command without any need to enable
> mcast on serial interfaces:
>
>
> http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios120/12cgcr/np1_c/1cprt1/1cmulti.htm
>
> Cheers,
> Dan
>
> On 5/22/07, Graham Clarke < graham@cisco-engineer.com> wrote:
> >
> > Group,
> >
> > Is there a way to use multicast across a WAN where some of the wan
> > components dont support multicast routing, WITHOUT using Tunneling
> > mechanisms?
> >
> > Multicast server ----- X (multicast) ------ (fluffy cloud (no
> > multicast))
> > -------- X (multicast enabled) ----- Clients
> >
> > My thoughts were convert the multicast to a Unicast, but I couldnt find
> > any
> > helpfull docs around this, and Cisco's reccomended solution is by using
> > GRE
> > Tunneling, which is not allowed.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Thanks
> >
> > Graham Clarke
> >
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-- 
Thanks

Graham Clarke

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