Internet2 Multicast Workshop

19-21 June  2002
University of Oregon Computing Center
Eugene, Oregon

Hosted by the University of Oregon

Over the course of this workshop students will design and set up a set of inter-connected multicast networks. The workshop will consist of a set of hands on exercises for small network teams. The workshop will be limited to 20 participants and those participants will be divided into four teams. Each team will have a mix of 3 routers and over the course of the workshop teams will configure their own network, inter-connect with the other teams, and then attach to the UO/Internet2 connected network.

It is our expectation that, after having experienced one workshop as a student, an attendee will be able to engineer multicast networks within his/her campus or gigaPoP, to explain multicast engineering concepts to peers, and, in some cases, to help teach or facilitate future multicast workshops. 

Topics to be covered at this workshop include:

• Router Configuration
• Multicast addressing
• Protocol Soup
  • IGMP - (Internet Group Membership Protocol) used by hosts and routers to tell each other about group membership
  • PIM-SM (Protocol Independent Multicast - sparse mode) used to propagate forwarding state between routers.
  • SSM (Source Specific Multicast) utilizes a subset of PIM's functionality to guaranty source-only trees in the 232/8 range.
  • MSDP (Multicast Source Discovery Protocol) used to exchange ASM active source information between RPs.
  • MBGP (Multiprotocol BGP) used to exchange routing information for interdomain RPF checking.
• SSM & other topics
• Deploying multicast in a multi-vendor enviroment.

For information, contact:

• Lucy Lynch: llynch@darkwing.uoregon.edu

Workshop Information

• Instructors:

Greg Shepherd of Juniper Networks & Beau Williamson of Cisco Systems.
Recent Presentations:
• Shepherd: IPMulticast Tutorial APRICOT 2002
• Williamson: Deploying Scalable IP Multicast
• Williamson: Deploying Inter-domain IP Multicast
• Agenda
  Syllabus - Draft Agenda
• Location
  Directions to Eugene & the UO campus. The workshop will be held at the University of Oregon Computing Center, 1225 Kincaid St. Eugene, OR.
• Dates & Times
  The workshop will begin on Wednesday, 19 June at 1pm and end Friday, 21 June at noon.
• Registration
  Please complete the registration form. There is a $100.00 fee to cover workshop costs & payment can be mailed to:
  
  UO Computing Center
  ATTN: Georgia Scott
  1212 University of Oregon
  Eugene, OR 97403-1212
  
  Attendance is limited to 20 students on a first come/first served basis. Late registrations may be wait-listed upon request.
• Accomodations
  The recommended hotel is the Eugene Phoenix Inn which is within walking distance of the workshop site,  the  Eugene Hilton  is also close.
• Acknowledgements

This workshop is made possible with contributions by the University of Oregon, Juniper Networks, and Cisco Systems.
• What to Bring

Students are asked to bring a laptop and a wireless access card (802.11b preferred) if you have one. Please install the standard tools (vic/vat/rat/sdr) or IP/TV on your laptops as well as mtrace and any other debugging tools that you find useful. See this tools page for download sites.