Thanks Ross/Richard, Some useful documents found with their search engine. I'll hopefully get to try the suggestions out this week.
Regards, Bikespace ""Richard Botham"" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Bikespace, > Just spent a day testing exactly this...spooky > > You're correct , Cisco's cannot put a multicast mac in its arp cache > dynamically - BUT - you CAN put STATIC ARP entries in a Cisco pointing to a > multicast mac.( Even if Layer3 is unicast) > > However there are some small perfomance points here ( only small !) > Turning CEF on does have some benefits but not huge amounts. > > I threw 100 * 512 byte UPD segments at the Cisco for 5 mins while using a > static multicast arp entry - It coped just fine. > > > HTH Rich Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=70292&t=69505 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]