On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 03:00:03PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Jared Mauch <jared@puck.Nether.net> said:
The problem is that the "tier 2" and whatnot providers have [mostly] missed the boat on it and don't have people that are able to configure their routers for mbgp. (this is not to say all but most).
There are a lot of resources for getting help in fixing and deploying multicast these days. It'd be nice to see more people turning it on.
Okay, I'm with a (decent sized, although probably small by NANOG measures) ISP. Why do I want to turn on multicast (what does it get me that I don't have today)? And if I want to turn it on, where can I find the resources you mention?
These are meant as honest questions (not intended as rhetorical or argumentative questions). I want to understand why I should do this.
As a sprint customer, you can start to turn on pim on your igp interfaces, set your routes for nlri unicast multicast as well as your bgp sessions. here's a pointer to sprint webpage: http://www.sprintlink.net/multicast/faq.html Verio customers can contact me for the support/request address (want to keep it out of the list archives to reduce spam and also incase it changes). This is also not a endorsement of Multicast Technologies but they have some info here: http://www.multicasttech.com/faq/ There are a lot of other resources out there. I suggest doing a few searches in google/yahoo and you can find some. - Jared -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared@puck.nether.net clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.