Victor, You could actually use GRE for that. The 7600 can do GRE in hardware (assuming you have Sup720 and up).
You need to make sure that the multicast source would be an IP routed through the GRE tunnel on the 7600, or else you would get RPF failures. I would say the best practice would be to get a switch that can handle multicast, and the above would be a workaround. Arie -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of victor Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 19:28 To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: [c-nsp] send multicast over non-multicast-enabled switch Hi. I was assigned with a task to set up a video streaming server and use a blade server for it. The problem is that the network connectivity module for the blade chassis is not dotQ multicast aware and simply drop all the 224.0.0.0/4 data. What options do I have to get the traffic through? I am thinking may be it is possible to encapsulate the stream into gre and then safely transport it to the RP? Or may be I can send it as unicast and then convert it somehow into multicast? Is there a best practices guide for this matter? The blade runs Linux and over the trunk connected to the RP which is Cisco 7604. -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
