Multicast Cookbook

Here's is the presentation given at the February 2005 Joint Techs meeting.

Why a Cookbook?  Here's the quick review:

         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

A cookbooks contains recipes that allows one to prepare and serve "non-standard” meals.  What you find here is not a replacement for existing multicast "cookbooks".  You will find references to the "recipe" used by other to enable multicast deployment on their network infrastructure.  This cookbook will:

         -   aid those deploying networks that will support multicast applications

         -   catalog the experiences of those who have successfully deployed

             multicast across their networks

         -   specify the tools used and the configuration parameters used for

             their network equipment

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Here's workshop material where you can find the basic information required by network engineers:

         .  Overview
         .  Multicast on the LAN / SSM
         .  Intra-domain ASM
         .  Inter-domain ASM
         .  Troubleshooting
         .   SSM Revisited / Making the Case for Multicast

Here are some useful multicast pointers from:

                  -   NLANR         

         -   Internet2 Hands-On Multicast Workshops

         -   Abilene Advanced Services

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Here's a look at some "recipes" for:

         .  Peering with Abilene - HOWTO for Cisco, Juniper routers
         .  Cisco IOS information

         .  Enabling IP Multicast with Abilene  (Cisco, Juniper routers)

Secure multicast infrastructure

        .  NWU - Secure Multicast Network Configuration Guide

        .  Matt Davy – protecting multicast-enabled networks

List of Multicast sites, references, and "looking glasses"

         . Looking Glass

         . Abilene Multicast Route Viewer

         . MANTRA multicast monitoring

         . Multicast Beacon Server

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Troubleshooting Guides:
      -  Bill Nickless – Methodology

      -  UCSB – Debugging handbook

      -  Internet2 Workshop

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Multicast tools, testers, and applications

      . Java applet that tests for multicast capability

      . NLANR pointers to multicast applications

      . University of Memphis

      . Multicast Applications

      . Internet Futures Lab

      . DVTS, the DVGuide, and the Videolan applications

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Share your recipes and critique the recipes in this Cookbook!
              wg-multicast@internet2.edu
              bdr@internet2.edu