Multicast Cookbook or why my wife has three cookbooks in the kitchen cupboard

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Multicast Cookbook or why my wife has three
cookbooks in the kitchen cupboard

• Bob Riddle
• Internet2 Multicast Working Group

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A Multicast Cookbook

• Multicast Definition
• To transmit a single message packet with a
  special destination address which multiple nodes
  on the network may be willing to receive.
• Why should I care about multicast?
• consider stats from earlier Victoria Secrets
  webcast
• More than 1 million web hits during 1st hour
• 283 increase in web traffic during event
• Do the math (stream potential endpoints)
• Consider the opportunities AG, ConfXP, Video
  delivery
• Milan, K12 school reduced cost of new high school
  (TV, coax, etc.)

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Why do you need a Cookbook?

• Cookbook n.
• A book of directions and receipts for cooking
• Recipe n. pl.
• A set of directions for preparing food from its
  ingredients.
• A method or procedure for accomplishing a goal by
  defined steps -- implying a high probability of
  achieving the goal
• My Kitchen Cupboard
• Recipe books for non-standard meals
• Howto instructions to guide in allow me to serve
  unusual meal

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What youll find in this Cookbook

• Ingredients
• Hardware (routers, switches)
• Software (configurations,tools, applications)
• Your Recipes
• How to prepare a ? router for multicast
• Cisco, Juniper, Force10, etc.
• How to prepare ? switches for multicast
• Cisco, HP, Force10, 3Com, etc.
• How to prepare ? endpoints for multicast
• WinXP, OS X, Linux, Wireless Hubs, etc.

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What youll wont find in this Cookbook

• My recipes (dont have to eat my cooking!)
• This is not a replacement for existing cookbooks
• This is like the cookbooks in my kitchen
  cupboard
• Contains recipes from others that describe how
  they prepared something (ingredients, process)
• Recipes from folks that prepared their _?_ for
  multicast
• the recipe
• Context matters your oven may be different
  from their oven, your ingredients may be
  different from their ingredients (budget,
  resources, infrastructure

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so this is your Multicast Cookbook

• This cookbook will aid those deploying networks
  that will support multicast applications.
• This cookbook will catalog the experiences of
  those who have successfully deployed multicast
  across their networks, including both the tools
  used and the configuration parameters for network
  equipment.
• This cookbook will be available on the web

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Chapter 1 the Ingredients

• Overview - Internet2 Hands-on Workshop
• Overview (PPT)
• Multicast on the LAN / SSM (PPT)
• Intra-domain ASM (PPT)
• Inter-domain ASM (PPT)
• Troubleshooting (PPT)
• SSM Revisited / Making the Case for Multicast
  (PPT)

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Chapter 1 continued

• NLANR Multicast Issues
• Multicast Working Group
• Abilene Advanced Services

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Chapter 2 Network related stuff

• Peering with Abilene
• HOWTO for Cisco, Juniper routers
• Secure multicast infrastructure
• NWU - Secure Multicast Network Configuration
  Guide
• lenny_at_juniper.net Security issues
  Recommendations
• Matt Davy protecting multicast-enabled networks
• Cisco IOS information
• Official List of Multicast Networks
• Looking Glass Lists

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Chapter 3 useful pointers

• Multicast Router viewer
• MANTRA multicast monitoring
• Multicast Beacon Server
• Multicast Troubleshooting
• Bill Nickless Methodology
• UCSB Debugging handbook
• Internet2 Workshop

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Chapter 4 Application Stuff

• Multicast Tester
• Tools for testing -Oregon
• Tools for testing NLANR
• Tools for testing Memphis Spotlight
• List of Applications
• Access Grid ANL
• Access Grid Internet Futures Lab
• DVTS and the DVGuide
• Videolan

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Chapter 5 Your Recipes

• Share your recipes!
• wg-multicast_at_internet2.edu
• bdr_at_internet2.edu
• Critique the recipes in the Cookbook
• join in the fun!
• Multicast working group
• DVGuide, AccessGrid, ConfXP, etc.

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Questions?

• ?

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