I have been trying to figure out how much multicast traffic and if the
traffic is valid being reported via V5 on the cisco 6500 platform.
Whenever I ask cisco they say go to V9, which sounds good except I would
have to upgrade all my routers to a new level of IOS which is not going
to happen.  I also have been playing around with the command below "ip
multicast netflow egress" command which is not documented much..  

My config for the 6500 is below:

6500:
mls aging long 64
mls aging normal 60
mls flow ip interface-full
mls nde sender version 5
ip flow-export source Loopback0
ip flow-export version 5 origin-as
ip flow-export destination x.x.x.x nnn

interface x/x
ip route-cache flow
ip multicast netflow egress

Excerpt:  The "ip multicast netflow egress" command causes the router to
generate flow records with the outbound ifIndex set for multicast
traffic. (In addition to the traditional flow record with next hop set
to Null, multiple flow records are created, one for each outbound
interface which is forwarding the particular multicast stream.) This
feature allows Out Approximation to work accurately for multicast
traffic. With this command you can detect multicast storms, isolate them
to specific branches, and identify the source server IP for remediation.

Without the command I do see some multicast traffic (S,Gs) and the
output interface gets tagged as 0 in flow-tools.

I have only been able to run that command in the lab and I am using IXIA
to generate multicast streams but the output has not been great, and I
am not 100% sure wether its the command or my IXIA config.  Has anyone
had any luck with using this command or something similar to report
multicast traffic.

Thanks,
~Lloyd
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