[vlc] Re: streaming, across cisco routers

[Mark Moriarty]

For multicast on a Cisco, you need the IP Plus version of Cisco IOS -- do
you have that? 

Once you have IP Plus, there are only a few command lines needed for the
router config.

The one "gotcha" at the server end is you need to adjust TTL (time to live).
The VLC default is something like 0 -- just increase that to, say, 12
(Overkill going through only a pair of routers, but it's what was in the
documentation somewhere, and it works fine)

(we just enabled VLC multicast through a pair of 1700-series routers 3 weeks
ago -- works OK)

-----Original Message-----
From: vlc-bounce at videolan.org [mailto:vlc-bounce at videolan.org] On Behalf Of
Philippe Van Hecke
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 2:42 AM
To: vlc at videolan.org
Subject: [vlc] Re: streaming, across cisco routers

Le Friday 02 July 2004 05:31, Eric Sandoval a écrit :
> new to using vlc...
>
> it works great in a local broadcast domain, but I am having trouble 
> multicasting it across a cisco router...  Very simple.. I have a 
> client on a second ethernet interface (/24) and the source is on the 
> first ethernet interface (/24)...  I just can't get vlc to work in the
topology...
>
> any help appreciated..
>
> thanks!!!
>
>
>
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To be able to forward multicast traffic across two interfaces you should
enable multicast routing protocol on both interfaces. On cisco you have
choice between old DVRMP protocol, PIM Sparse-mode or pim dense-mode.

This is best to enable pim sparse mode.

Regards,
Philippe

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