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Re: IP Multicast support within MPLS-VPNs

  • From: Bob Payment <bpayment@cisco.com>
  • Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:42:54 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
  • cc: mpls-ops@mplsrc.com
  • Resent-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 17:41:56 -0400
  • To: shahnader@yahoo.com
  • X-X-Sender: bpayment@mayo.cisco.com




Support for MVPN was introduced for Cisco 7500 and Cisco-7200 with Cisco
IOS 12.2(13)T and Cisco IOS 12.0(23)S. Support for Cisco-7500 is in MDFS
(eg: distributed switching). 
Support for MVPN hardware forwarding on Cisco-10000 series router was
introduced with Cisco IOS 12.0(23)SX (same features as 12.0(23)S).  


Don't know about the current state of sharing multicast between
VRF. Will look into that. It is certainly supported within a single VRF.
The above code requirements are for the PE routers only. P routers need
to support good old multicast as well as the CE routers of course.


Thanks,

Bob Payment
bpayment@cisco.com



On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 shahnader@yahoo.com wrote:

> Hi,
> A while ago, Cisco was working on Multicast over MPLS-VPN, not sure where we 
> are on that today. Two questions :
> 
> 1) Is it supported within one VRF ?
> 
> 2) Can a source VRF distribute Multicast streams into selective other VRFs ?
>     (similar to IGMP at VRF level) 
> 
> 
> I believe this will have a great application for the service providers in 
> providing video services, or large enterprises for video broadcast/training.
> 
> Any pointers, or thoughts will be appreciated,
> 
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