Multicast setup help

[Nocturnalis]

I've posted about this some time ago and got side tracked. I was told to setup multicast on my environment. Doing some reading the past few days has me more confused.

I have two 4506 sup 5 for my core and a bunch of 3560's out on the floors on different VLAN's. We have about 5 VLAN's for data on the floors and a server VLAN. We are trying to get Ghost to connect to all the machines. Ghost server in server VLAN.

How do I go about doing this. I've read I had to setup multicast groups. I do also have IGMP enabled by default.


Thanks

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[BuckWeet]

easy way is to enable 'ip pim spare-mode' on all of your vlan interfaces on the 4500 (assuming that is the layer3 point) then set an 'ip pim rp-address' this address should be one of your core devices..

this is the absolute simplest way of doing it. there are more options to enable such as auto-rp and msdp using anycast-rp to gain redundancy.


BuckWeet

 

[dearingkr]

For a small network, dense mode is easier to implement.

For Example:

ip multicast-routing
interface FastEthernet0/1
 ip address 172.16.8.1 255.255.255.0
 ip pim state-refresh origination-interval 60
 ip pim dense-mode

You don't have to mess with RPs or anything else.


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