Internet2 Multicast Hands-On Workshop

21-23 July, 2004

Registration and other Logistics

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 types of router and over the course of the workshop teams will configure their own network, interconnect with the other teams, and then attach to the 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.

It is strongly suggested that participants have previous experience with router configuration, and basic routing protocols. While a variety of Multicast-related topics will be covered, the primary focus will be on understanding how to configure routers to support Multicast. Participants with backgrounds in configuring campus routers (particularly BGP configuration) will benefit the most from the workshop labs.

We recommend that students get a copy of the book "Interdomain Multicast Routing: Practical Juniper Networks and Cisco Systems Solutions by Brian M. Edwards, Leonard A. Giuliano, and Brian R. Wright."

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 guarantee 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.
• Deploying multicast in a multi-vendor environment.

WHEN:

• Wednesday, July 21: 1pm - 5 pm
• Thursday, July 22: 9 am - 5 pm
• Friday, June 23: 9 am - 5pm

WHERE:

Fawcett Center
Columbus, Ohio

COST: The cost for the Workshop is $300 per attendee.

WHAT TO BRING: Students are asked to bring a laptop and a wireless access card (802.11b required) 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.

Sponsors/Acknowledgements

Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks are sponsors of the Internet2 Multicast Workshop Series. Cisco Systems provided 2651XM routers and network modules and memory for 3640 routers, and Juniper Networks provided M-5 routers.

Contributors include Columbia University, Argonne National Laboratory, NCSA, University of Iowa, Indiana University, University of Oregon, University of Utah, and Mid-Atlantic Crossroads Gigapop who have provided presenters for individual workshops.

Thanks to Greg Shepherd, Marshall Eubanks, Bill Nickless, Patrick Dorn, Beau Williamson, University of Oregon, Cisco Systems, and Juniper Networks for their contributions to the workshop documentation.