Sunday, April 27, 2008

Multicast over a GRE Tunnel - Cisco Systems

Multicast over a GRE Tunnel - Cisco Systems
This document provides a sample configuration for multicasting over a generic routing encapsulation (GRE) tunnel.
In many network scenarios you want to configure your network to use GRE tunnels to send Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) and multicast traffic between routers. Typically, this occurs when the multicast source and receiver are separated by an IP cloud which is not configured for IP multicast routing. In such network scenarios, configuring a tunnel across an IP cloud with PIM enabled transports multicast packets toward the receiver. This document describes the configuration, verification, and related issues pertaining to multicasting over a GRE tunnel.

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