Junos Multicast Routing

This course benefits individuals responsible for implementing, monitoring, and troubleshooting multicast components in a service provider's network.

Chapter 1: Course Introduction

Chapter 2: Introduction to Multicast

• Overview of Multicast
• Multicast Addresses
• Reverse Path Forwarding
• Internet Group Management Protocol
• Lab: Implementing a Baseline Network

Chapter 3: Multicast Routing Protocols

• Overview of Multicast Routing Protocols
• PIM Message Types

Chapter 4: PIM Sparse Mode

 

• PIM Sparse Mode Operation
• Bidirectional PIM Operation
• Configuring Sparse Mode
• Configuring Bidirectional PIM
• Monitoring Sparce Mode
• Lab: PIM Sparse Mode and RP Discovery

Chapter 5: MSDP

• MSDP
• Anycast-RP
• Lab: Implementing MSDP and Anycast-RP

Chapter 6: Source-Specific Multicast

• Overview of SSM Operation
• SSM Addresses
• IGMPv3 and SSM
• PIM-SM and SSM
• SSM Case Study
• Lab: Source-Specific Multicast

Chapter 7: Multicast and Policy

• Multicast and Policy Overview
• Controlling PIM Join and Register Messages
• Controlling BSR Messages
• Controlling MSDP SA Messages
• Implementing Multicast Scoping
• Lab: Multicast and Policy

Appendix A: PIM Dense Mode

• Configuring Dense Mode
• Monitoring Dense Mode
• Lab: PIM Dense Mode (Optional)

Appendix B: IPv6 Multicast

• IPv6 Multicast Addresses
• IPv6 MLD
• IPv6 ASM Options
• IPv6 SSM Addresses

Students should have basic networking knowledge and an understanding of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model and the TCP/IP protocol suite. Students should also have working knowledge of security policies.

After successfully completing this course, you should be able to:

• Describe IP multicast traffic flow .
• Identify the components of IP multicast.
• Explain how IP multicast addressing works.
• Describe the need for reverse path forwarding (RPF) in multicast.
• Explain the role of IGMP and describe the available IGMP versions.
• Configure and monitor IGMP.
• Identify common multicast routing protocols.
• Explain the differences between dense-mode and sparse-mode protocols.
• Describe rendezvous point (RP) discovery options.
• Configure and monitor PIM dense mode and PIM sparse mode.
• Configure and monitor rendezvous point discovery mechanisms.
• Explain the purpose and operation of MSDP.
• Describe the usage of MSDP within a single PIM domain with anycast-RP.
• Describe the usage of MSDP across multiple PIM domains.
• Configure and monitor MSDP.
• Compare the any-source multicast (ASM) and source-specific multicast (SSM) service models.
• Describe the basic requirements, benefits, and caveats of SSM.
• List the address ranges used for SSM.
• Illustrate the role of IGMPv3 and PIM-SM in an SSM implementation.
• Configure and monitor SSM.
• Describe the default PIM sparse mode information distribution.
• Explain how routing policies control IGMP joins.
• Explain how routing policies alter PIM protocol message flow.
• Identify the role of a policy in controlling MSDP message advertisement.
• Explain how you can use a policy to scope multicast groups.
• Describe IPv6 multicast addresses.
• Describe IPv6 multicast scoping.
• Compare IPv6 Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) versions with IPv4's IGMP protocol versions.
• Describe IPv6 SSM.