[AG-TECH] Multicast to Alaska

[Bill Nickless]

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Are you sure that DREN is your only link?

I'm getting your route this way:

Kiwi#show ip bgp 137.229.0.0
BGP routing table entry for 137.229.0.0/16, version 5183141
Paths: (8 available, best #3)
   Advertised to peer-groups:
      embgp-mc-transit imbgp-mesh
   145 11537 101 7774
     192.5.170.130 from 192.5.170.130 (204.147.128.158)
       Origin IGP, metric 900, localpref 10000, valid, external
       Community: 145:999 11537:900 11537:950
   145 11537 101 7774, (received-only)
     192.5.170.130 from 192.5.170.130 (204.147.128.158)
       Origin IGP, localpref 100, valid, external
       Community: 145:999 11537:900 11537:950
   11537 101 7774
     192.5.170.170 from 192.5.170.170 (198.32.8.252)
       Origin IGP, metric 800, localpref 10000, valid, external, best
       Community: 11537:900 11537:950
   11537 101 7774, (received-only)
     192.5.170.170 from 192.5.170.170 (198.32.8.252)
       Origin IGP, localpref 100, valid, external
       Community: 11537:900 11537:950
   293 11537 101 7774
     198.124.254.165 from 198.124.254.165 (134.55.29.97)
       Origin IGP, metric 1100, localpref 10000, valid, external
       Community: 11537:900 11537:950
   293 11537 101 7774, (received-only)
     198.124.254.165 from 198.124.254.165 (134.55.29.97)
       Origin IGP, localpref 100, valid, external
       Community: 11537:900 11537:950
   2914 101 7774
     192.5.170.166 from 192.5.170.166 (129.250.0.57)
       Origin IGP, metric 4000, localpref 10000, valid, external
   2914 101 7774, (received-only)
     192.5.170.166 from 192.5.170.166 (129.250.0.57)
       Origin IGP, metric 21, localpref 100, valid, external

...which seems to imply that you're directly connected to the University of 
Washington (ASN 101) in Seattle, who connects to Abilene.  University of 
Washington appears to be IP multicast connected.  Is that an option for you?

At 11:33 AM 12/14/2000 -0900, Bob Huebert wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>   Our node is up and functioning, but unable to join the Abilene 
> multicast groups. Seems we have a tunnel to a DREN site which doesn't 
> provide the path that we need to join the Access Grid with our node. I 
> understand that there are efforts underway to enable multicast on the 
> DREN, but until that time I'd like to see if we could find a tunnel which 
> would lead to Abilene. Is there another AG site which would consider 
> providing a tunnel to Alaska?
>
>Thanks
>
>Bob
>--
>_______________________________________________________________________
>Bob Huebert                                 email: huebert at arsc.edu
>HPC Visualization Systems Analyst           voice: (907) 474-5751
>Arctic Region Supercomputing Center           FAX: (907) 474-5494
>University of Alaska Fairbanks                WWW: http://www.arsc.edu/

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Bill Nickless    http://www.mcs.anl.gov/people/nickless      +1 630 252 7390
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