Troubleshooting Multicast Traffic Flows
Just what is multicast? How do you set up your network to handle multicast? And how do you troubleshoot it if it fails? Let’s start from the beginning. Unicast Forwarding Typical IP packet forwarding is considered “unicast” – a communication is broken up into IP…
IP Fabric 3.5.2 is Expanding Support for Multicast (RP, IGMPv2/3) and Firepower
Week commencing 1st June 2020, and another minor release – IP Fabric 3.5.2 – is ready for deployment! Let’s sum up what the latest release has to offer. Multicast updates The 3.5 version started with multicast support with routing capabilities and the impressive distribution tree…
Multicast routing in IP Fabric 3.5
Multicast routing and related implementations can be a real pain. If you want to make a network engineer nervous (and it doesn’t matter whether managing enterprise or service provider networks), just whisper few evil words “PIM”, “distribution tree”, “IGMP”. And if it’s not enough and…
IP Fabric 3.5: Cisco Meraki, Multicasts and L2 over MPLS
With the main focus on Cisco Meraki as another stepping stone towards API based discovery, the new IP Fabric version 3.5 is out in the wild. The added discovery via API is very important for future implementation of SDN technologies, cloud networks and it eventually opens access to more information on some security devices.