Chapter 19. Configuring Multicast
This chapter covers the following topics:
The Central Multicast Problem—Describes the key issue with multicasting—identifying sources.
Routing Multicast Traffic—Describes multicast routing protocols.
Enabling PIM Sparse-Dense Mode—Describes the commands necessary to implement multicasting.
When configuring multicast routing, the trick is not remembering a large set of commands, but understanding how those simple commands and your environment are supported by the router. The first section of this chapter deals with finding the multicast server. The second section describes how multicast routing and routing protocols work, and the third section covers the required commands to create an IP multicast network.
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