Brian's Blog

  Installation Directly from Ansible Galaxy ansible-galaxy collection install cisco.cml via git repository ansible-galaxy collection ins...

Overview IGMP snooping allows switches to listen to IGMP report and leave messages to determine what hosts if any are interested in receiv...

Overview The concept of anycast is predicated on the longest match method of routing packets. Consequently its possible to have multiple de...

Overview BGP has capabilities extensions to allow the distribution of multicast routing information between BGP speakers. This capability c...

Overview Source specific multicast or SSM uses IGMPv3 PM messages to allow receivers to specify the group and source they want to listen t...

Overview Bidirectional PIM is an extension to PIM SM that only uses the shared tree for multicast distribution. Typical use cases are when...

Overview The ip multicast helper-address command can be useful when you have a need to send broadcast traffic between two layer 2 or more l...