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
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> 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




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