Re: [c-nsp] Multicast Core

2010-03-17 Thread Christopher.Marget
We are currently using 2960Gs with IGMP querier enabled I'm thinking a 4948 or 3750G would work. It sounds like you're using the L2 'ip igmp snooping querier' function in your 2960. I don't think that feature is available in the 4948. IGMP snooping as a function of enabling multicast

Re: [c-nsp] Multicast Core

2010-03-17 Thread Jim McBurnett
What about the new 3750X and 3560X models? Jim -Original Message- From: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Alexander Clouter Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 5:46 PM To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Multicast Core

[c-nsp] Multicast Core

2010-03-16 Thread Tony Bunce
I'm looking for a router to sit at the core of a small-ish multicast network (about 100 sources and receivers total, but would expect it to double over time). Currently all of the sources and receivers are in the same VLAN but we would like for the occasional receiver to be located in a

Re: [c-nsp] Multicast Core

2010-03-16 Thread Adrian Minta
Tony Bunce wrote: I'm looking for a router to sit at the core of a small-ish multicast network (about 100 sources and receivers total, but would expect it to double over time). Currently all of the sources and receivers are in the same VLAN but we would like for the occasional receiver to be

Re: [c-nsp] Multicast Core

2010-03-16 Thread Phil Mayers
On 16/03/10 17:04, Adrian Minta wrote: 3750G will not handle this becase multicast routing is done in CPU. I believe the first switch that do multicast routing in hardware is 6500. I don't think that's true. I think 3750s do multicast in hardware.

Re: [c-nsp] Multicast Core

2010-03-16 Thread Alexander Clouter
Phil Mayers p.may...@imperial.ac.uk wrote: On 16/03/10 17:04, Adrian Minta wrote: 3750G will not handle this becase multicast routing is done in CPU. I believe the first switch that do multicast routing in hardware is 6500. I don't think that's true. I think 3750s do multicast in hardware.

Re: [c-nsp] Multicast Core

2010-03-16 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 3/16/2010 10:28, Tony Bunce wrote: The total of the multicast sources is 4Gbps so I don't think a 7200 would work unfortunately. The router would mostly serve as a IGMP querier and would only ever route 2-3 streams at a time, so I think my worst case would be sum of all sources + 3

Re: [c-nsp] Multicast Core

2010-03-16 Thread Tony Bunce
Ours definiately do, otherwise I would imagine all that IPTV traffic on Are you using the 3750s for layer3 or just layer2? If just layer2 what are you using as your as your multicast router? It is looking like both the 3750 and 4948 do hardware multicast. Any reason to pick one over the

Re: [c-nsp] Multicast Core

2010-03-16 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 3/16/2010 13:28, Tony Bunce wrote: Ours definiately do, otherwise I would imagine all that IPTV traffic on Are you using the 3750s for layer3 or just layer2? If just layer2 what are you using as your as your multicast router? It is looking like both the 3750 and 4948 do hardware

Re: [c-nsp] Multicast Core

2010-03-16 Thread Rene F.
On 3/16/10 2:49 PM, Alexander Clouter wrote: Phil Mayersp.may...@imperial.ac.uk wrote: On 16/03/10 17:04, Adrian Minta wrote: 3750G will not handle this becase multicast routing is done in CPU. I believe the first switch that do multicast routing in hardware is 6500. I

Re: [c-nsp] Multicast Core

2010-03-16 Thread Alexander Clouter
Tony Bunce to...@go-concepts.com wrote: Ours definiately do, otherwise I would imagine all that IPTV traffic on Are you using the 3750s for layer3 or just layer2? If just layer2 what are you using as your as your multicast router? Mixed, but generally L3. The uplink links are