Re: Multicast Design

Afternoon Rookie Ccie,

The thing about the core, is that it is normally fast, redundant, and has
connectivity to all of the network. Do not place the RP somewhere that it
is slow, or where redundancy and reachability is sketchy ...

Not much burden at all to the core ...

In the design guide, it looks like these are within the data path. For a
medium size network, this is probably fine. For larger networks and where
mcast is used extensively, you might have the RPs on dedicated routers
attached to the core. These would be in the core still, fast, redundant,
etc ...

BTW - if you can say, what apps will you be running and to which clients? I
am just curious ..., hope you do not mind me asking.

HTH,

Andrew

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Rookie Ccie <rookie.ccie_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Experts,
>
> I'm planning to implement multicast on a medium sized campus network using
> anycast RP. According to the Cisco Multicast SRND (
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk828/tech_design_guides_list.html) the RP
> should be placed at the core of the network. Will doing this add an extra
> burden to the core? Please share your thoughts/experiences on this.
>
> Rgds
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