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egeerdes · ‎12-05-2019

Thank you for the advice. Like you said, no IGMP proxy for the MX security appliances. Should I be utilizing the L3 portion of the MS225's? If I wanted to prepare for the future and say, send multicast between our stations through a site-to-site VPN, how should I prepare for this architecturally?

egeerdes · ‎12-05-2019

Thanks for the good advice. I'll keep this in mind. Pretty much my whole audio transmission route is centered around multicast. If I have a layer 2 loop, why is that such a bad thing? The article I read explained it a little bit stating that the time of convergence was pretty latent with RSTP and said to use PVST or PVST+ if possible. Should I have no RSTP on this period? Doesn't the Meraki ports use RSTP port fast as default? How does LACP resolve a failover? I know a little bit about Link Aggregation but haven't actually needed to use it yet in my career.

egeerdes · ‎12-04-2019

Greetings everyone, I need some advice on best practices when working with multicast. We are upgrading our audio routing distribution system and it is centered around multicast. I work at a radio network and we can't afford more than a 30 second outage. The upgrade is going to introduce 3 new switches (for 3 studios) into our network (possibly meraki or catalyst, not sure which yet) but I would like some advice on what people have found to make the multicast traffic highly available. Should I implement RSTP? is there a preferred topology? Is there an edge to using meraki switches over catalyst 2960's? I found a page https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/ios-nx-os-software/multicast-enterprise/whitepaper_c11-474791.html that shed a little light on this but wanted to reach out to the community.

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