Cisco Switching/Routing :: Test Multicast Between VRFs Configured On Nexus 7Ks?
Jan 11, 2012
We are trying to test multicast between VRFs configured on Nexus 7Ks. Two Nexus 7Ks are configured for VPC. Multicast Server is in one VRF where as Receiver is in another VRF. The two VRFs are connected to each other via Checkpoint Firewall (Active/Active cluster in unicast mode). All routes have been established and connectivity tested between multicast server and receiver using ICMP.Using, windows mcast.exe multicast stream is generated from server (in one VRF) intended to be received by receiver (in second VRF). Every time, only one multicast packet is received by the receiver and rest all packets are being dropped. Server and Receiver are VirtualMachines configured on VMWaresame chassis which is connected to two Nexus 5Ks (VPC configured).
Attached setup i am planning for testing multicast output from different vendors using VLC and STB. This Setup made to test the picture quality between the vendors at the same time on the multi viewer screen.
1) Only a 2960 Gig port switch with only one L2 v lan with IGMP snooping enabled. In this scenario where Source and receivers are in the same L2 v lan ( no L3 interface is involved) hope i would able to test all the multicast sources with out any additional configuration on the Cisco switch.
I would like test multicast routing with cisco1801.i create 2 Vlan. Vlan 200 (192.168.200.x) affect Fastethernet 1, Vlan 130 (192.168.130.x) Fastethernet 5.
Version IOS is : adipservice-k9 124-9.t1
ip multicast-routing
#int Vlan 130 ip address 192.168.130.254 255.255.255.0 Ip pim dense-mode #int Vlan 200 Ip address 192.168.200.254 255.255.255.0 Ip pim dense-mode
I used VLC for my test.When i connect source (224.10.10.10) and recever ( Udp://@224.10.10.10:1234), that's ok!But, source is on the Vlan 200 and reicever on the Vlan 130, is not good!I test with "sparse-mode", i have same problem.
I hve the above setup and I need to setup multicast between the 2 servers. The nexu7k is a layer 2 switch and the 6500 is a lyer3.Both servers would be sending/receving traffic.
have multicast data across OTV extensions? We run OTV between two pairs of Nexus 7000 in different datacenters with mcast underlying encapsulation. We stretch 10 or so vlans between the sites. We have encountered multiple bugs over the last two years and had to upgrade code and have rarely been clear for any period of time.
We've had an ongoing Tac case where IGMP requests are not getting across the OTV VLAN extension to the PIM forwarder on another site. You can see OTV IGMP snooping on the AED VDC is picking up the request on the local site but it does not get to the remote site that is the PIM forwarder so no multicast gets onto the VLAN. For a while we had a hack where we would get a local server to the PIM forwarder router to request the same groups and then this would somehow get across to the other site. Since clearing the overlay interfaces to try and fix the original problem the hack no longer works and I can't get multicast to the receiver at all.
We are currently migrating from Cisco 6500 switches to Nexus 7000 switches. I need replicate the following multicast configuration on the 6500 switches in the simplest way so Multicast is functioning on the Nexus 7000 switches.
Cisco 6500 configuration.
ip multicast-routing interface Vlan8 description ip address 10.128.46.2 255.255.240.0
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how we can enable multicast on the Nexus 7000 switches in the simplest form so this will continue operating.
I have 10.10.10.10 in 2 VRFs (lite) on 2 different VLANs What i would like to achieve:- if i connect to 172.16.7.125 in the global VRF then translate it to VRF1 10.10.10.10 destination address.- if i connect to 172.16.3.162 in the global VRF then translate it to VRF2 10.10.10.10 destination address IMHO the solution is quite simple:ip nat outside source static 10.10.10.10 172.16.7.125 vrf VRF1 ip nat outside source static 10.10.10.10 176.16.3.162 vrf VRF2 However the router thinks something else:
IMHO this configuration should be valid. The global VRF has two IPs (172.16.7.125 and 172.16.3.162) while the 2 other VRFs work happily with the two identical 10.10.10.10 destinations as they should. The two translations should be easily distinguished as these are from two different VRFs.Either i am missing something or it is a problem in IOS.
I am having an odd issue on a couple of new 3750X switches.I am trying to configure VRF-lite and it is not recoginizing the command.Does that make any sense? I have goggled the syntax ans it should be right.
I have multicast routing setup between two Nexus 7K's.These Nexus 7K's act as the distribution layer and they connect to 48 different 4507 access layer switches (VPC) and 3 6509 core layer switches.The 4507 swiches have two supervisor modules. One acting as active and the other as hot standby. Let's assume that multicast is working on the active module. If I pull out the active module the hot standby takes it's place. This is where multicast stops working on the switch.How can I get both Nexus 7K's to work with multicast at the same time. Here is an example of show ip mroute from both Nexus 7K's:note that DR02 has a lot more entries in the routing table. Is this working as designed?
DR01-C7018# sh ip mroute IP Multicast Routing Table for VRF "default" (*, 224.0.0.0/4), bidir, uptime: 1y11w, pim ip Incoming interface: Ethernet3/1, RPF nbr: 172.18.254.109 Outgoing interface list: (count: 1) Ethernet3/1, uptime: 29w3d, pim, (RPF)
I am trting to test multicast between two sites connected over WAN...SIte A is connected to Site B with DS3 link with ethernet output.The DS3 link is connncteted between cisco 2851 router at each end.At Lan SIde Cisco 2851 router is conncted to Nortel-8600 Switch over ethernet connectivty at both end.PIM is enabled on Nortel-8600 core switch with Sparse mode and multicast is working fine within LAN.Same is the result for both sites.
Now we are trying to make multicast work over wan in which PIM is enabled on both lan & want interafce of cisco router with sparse mode and multicast is enabled globally...now both the routers are making neighbourship with respective lan switches and with each other but multicast traffic is not flowing.In cisco router Mroute is not coming for the multicast group defined in core switch.
We are facing issue of continous packet discards On nexus4001L link (int po2) to Nexus5020 switch. Nexus4001L is installed in IBM blade center server and we have FCOE enabled in this setup. [code]
I have been tasked to replace the existing Cat 6500 and 3750 switches by Nexus 7000 and Nexus 2000.I was told initially my boss plans to get 2 x Nexus 7000 and then eventually blow up to 4 x Nexus 7000s.For Nexus, is there a list of tasks / points that i need to consider for building the initial design?
Can i just link the Nexus 7000 like the following?
N7k-A ========= N7k-B | | lots of N2ks lots of N2ks
The last few days I've been exploring options in getting rid of some old routers accross a wan connections. I have a cat 3560 to play with and I thought I would try and use the no switchport command test out routing with switch. I've got some type of route issue and I tried a few things which I thought would fix the issue but had no effect. I'll post the config and a few commands so you can see what the basic setup is.
Here we can see in the arp that it knows about both 10.7.1.2 (PC unable to ping 10.3.3.254) as well as 10.3.3.254 (ASA).I tried adding in a ip route of 10.7.0.0 255.255.0.0 10.3.3.110 as well as 10.3.3.254. Neither produced the results I wanted allowing 10.7.1.2 (PC) to ping the ASA (10.3.3.254). [code]
we are planning a Nexus datacenter project with this layout:Our experiences with Nexus switches are not so large until now and the manuals are very extensive.Both N5K´s should be connected directly with all 4 N2K switches. I did not find a layout like this in the manuals. Only a design,where only 2 N2K are connected to one N5K, with this fex config:Now I´m not sure if it is right to make a config like this with the same slots and fex´s or with different slots and fex´s.
i have a couple of nexus 7010 (5(2)3a) connected to a checkpoint in HA(active/active)I have now to configure multicast mac..i found this commmand: [code]
I try to pass multicast traffic between two vrf on the same 3750 switch. I have IP services IOS and sdm template routing.
here is my config:
ip routing ! ip vrf vpn2 rd 1:1 mdt default 232.1.1.1 route-target export 1:1 route-target import 1:1
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Now I'm stuck - I don't know what to do to pass multicast traffic. Do I have any chance to run this config on 3750 chassis?Perhaps "Configuring Multicast VPN Extranet Support" document will be useful, but it concerns Catalyst 6500? [URL]
I am having some issue with SPT with the following topology.Pair of Nexus 5548 and 3750 are configured with MST instance 1.when enable STP as MST on Dell switches , it does not recognise it and create loop but if We change MST0 (only tried on one 3750 and two Dell switches in triangle in lab). its work fine.Does Dell switches only understand MST0 ?Can Nexus 5548 support MST0 if we change from MST1 and what will be effect?
I start configuring Cisco 2821 router for multicast . First short description and attached sheme explanation. Let we say I have small network with 100 users. One router and Cisco switch 3560. Two VLAN’s, one for data another for multicast. Data from internet works fine but now I want to connect multicast servers (or source of more multicast streams) from another subnet. Router have three interfaces.I expect there should be no problems with multicast configuration, but unfortunately it is not like I expect. What I did ?
First step: enable multicast routing
Second step: on both interfaces (Fe 0/1 and Fe 0/2) - ip pim sparse-mode
Third step: configure switch that users are connected to access port in VLAN 222 (temporary to see if multicast work)
When I start VLC on computer nothing happend. If I try to connect computer on same subnet where is source of multicast streams it works fine.What I am doing wrong ? Is there anything about routing ? All subnets are directly connected. RP is not needed if I have one router or ?
I have a few 3560E running Ver 12.2(50)se2. Can these boxes be configured to run VRF. I see a "sho IP VRF" option, but I do not see it available when under config t. Do I need to do a IOS upgrade to be able to configure VRF?
Recently i atsrt having problems with my cisco router 1811/k9, apparently was booting continiosly when restarted.
After i connected my console i found the problem while booting:
DDR memory test failed. Resetting the router ...
I tried to contact cisco TAC, but i need a reseller contract number to place a ticket, i do not have a resller contract number as my router was bought more than two years ago. I called cisco support and they told me to contact my reseller, my reseller told me to contact cisco so i am in a eternal loop of forwarding phone calls...
I have a problem on my catalyst 6509 on which I would like to do the following things :
I have some Vlans in which multicast is enabled. In tose Vlan theres is a router which is default router for equipements.
I had enabled multicast routing because some Vlan needs to exchange multicast informations, but I wolud like to make difference between Multicast traffic. For example I have 5 vlans:
Vlan 1 and 2 need to exchange Multicast informations but the don't need multicast information from Vlan 3 and 4 Vlan 3 and 5 need to exchange Multicast informations but the don't need multicast information from Vlan 1 and 2 Vlan 5 is independant Vlan but doesn't need to have multicast information from all others vlan.
Last problem, equipement on differents vlan can use the same Mulkticast group address. In this case, Multicast routing is not working between Vlan 1 to Vlan 2 and Vlan 3 to Vlan 4.
I am configuring multicast in a environment where I have a 4506 at each site (4 total) and a 6506 as the core. Each 4506 is connected via layer 3 to the 6506. I have a mix of 3560s, 3548s, and 2960s connected to the 4506s and the 6506 via layer 2 trunk
I have multiple multicast sources and hosts communicating at a time (multiple cameras sending video / multiple computers receiving video). So this is not a scenario where there is 1 sender and many receivers. This would be many senders (~50) and some receivers (~10)
I configured ip multicast-routing on each of the 4506s and on the 6506. IGMP snooping is on by default on the 3560 and 2960 switches. CGMP is on by default on the 3548 switches.
I set up PIM sparse-dense mode and IGMP version 3 on each of the layer 3 interfaces for the 4506s and 6506 where they connect and on each VLAN that is sending or receiving multicast. Multicast is working throughout the network, however I am looking to verify the configuration as I scale this out to more clients on the network.
#1 - Is it correct to us sparse-dense mode in this configuration?
#2 - Do I need to configure a rendezvous points using AUTO-RP? (ip pim send-rp-announce INTERFACE scope TTL). Not sure here if I need to designate this and what to choose. Right now I do not have this and it is working, but documentation seems to infer that I need to designate this.
#3 - Is there any other configuration settings I should be considering? I hard to find real world configurations of multicast as examples or people that know multicast routing well.
I’ve been trying a few days now to implement multicast routing on my home network in order to make airplay work between subnets. Specifically between an iphone and a hifi separated by different vlans. Failed, as I have no experience in multicast routing. we have a clean configuration and simple network which consists of two SVIs
We have a working PBR route map on a 6509 switch and a 3750 switch, each in different locations.On both devices, the route-map is configured to match on one of multiple ACLs, then set the next hop to a directly-connected IP address, like so: [code]
When copying in the ACL contents for "ACL20", they were accidentally copied in to the ACL1 list, and ACL20 was never created. Shortly after this was done, the next hop router went unreachable in both locations. Pings failed and the 6509 and 3750 each lost the EIGRP adjacency to the 1.1.1.5 router. After troubleshooting, I removed "match ip address ACL20" and connectivity returned.
My question is...if a PBR route-map tries to match on a non-existent ACL, what happens? Does it mark the next hop unreachable (even though it's directly connected) or does it match for ALL traffic and send *everything* there (thus, making it appear unreachable, as if a broadcast storm was happening)?
I'm have ether channel between CISCO 6506 and CISCO 3750X. I'm set load-balance ip-src from 6506 side and dst-ip from 3750 side. i'm try test etherchannel for detect physical link for test ip. On 3750 all work, but on 6506 i'm get error: test etherchannel load-balance interface port-channel 1 ip 10.10.10.2 10.10.10.1 ^ % Invalid input detected at '^' marker.
I have configured a few 3750G switches with trunks and I want to test the throughput. In your experience is iperf the best tool? If so what settings do you use?
while i am configuring a port on switch .The switch reloads.After reload the show version says,System returned to ROM by bus error at PC 0x458F6C, address 0x0,show version from the effected switch is,Cisco IOS Software, C3750E Software (C3750E-UNIVERSALK9-M), Version 12.2(58)SE2, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1).
I faced multicast routing problem - There is no multicast UDP stream toward host, although all igmp Joins/Reports/Leaves from the host are correct.
This is Cisco 7609 ip m route debug showing the situation: 369144: Nov 15 15:03:07.370 MSK: IGMP(0): Received v2 Report on Vlan176 from 10.XXX.XX.184 for 239.XXX.XX.46 369145: Nov 15 15:03:07.370 MSK: IGMP(0): Received Group record for group 239.XXX.XX.46, mode 2 from 10.XXX.XX.184 for 0 sources [code]....
I have an 861 that we are using for a test network and need to add static igmp addresses for multicast. We are using the router as a router on a stick with subinterfaces on the WAN link. I've looked everywhere to see how to add the static igmp addresses.
interface FastEthernet4 no ip address no ip route-cache cef
