Course Overview
This two-day JMR course is designed to provide students with detailed coverage of multicast protocols including Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP), Protocol Independent Multicast-Dense Mode (PIM-DM), Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM), and Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP). Through demonstrations and hands-on labs, students will gain experience in configuring and monitoring the Junos operating system and in monitoring device and protocol operations.
Target Audience
Network engineers, technical support personnel, reseller support engineers, and others responsible for implementing and/or maintaining the Juniper Networks products covered in this course.
This course benefits individuals responsible for implementing, monitoring, and troubleshooting multicast components in a service provider's network.
Course Objectives
After successfully completing this course, students should be able to:
- Identify the components of IP multicast
- Explain how IP multicast addressing works
- Identify the need for reverse path forwarding (RPF) in multicast
- Explain the role of IGMP and describe the available IGMP versions
- Configure and monitor IGMP
- Explain the differences between dense-mode and sparse-mode protocols
- Describe rendezvous point (RP) discovery options
- Configure and monitor PIM dense and sparse modes
- 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 alter PIM message traffic
- Describe how MSDP advertises messages to established peers
- Identify the role of a policy in controlling MSDP message advertisement
- Explain how you can use a policy to scope multicast groups
Course Outline
Day 1
Chapter 1: Course Introduction
Chapter 2: Introduction to Multicast
- Overview of Multicast
- Multicast Addresses
- Reverse Path Forwarding
- Internet Group Management Protocol
Chapter 3: Multicast Routing Protocols
- Overview of Multicast Routing Protocols
- PIM-DM
- PIM-SM
Day 2
Chapter 4: MSDP
Chapter 5: Source-Specific Multicast
- Overview of SSM Operation
- SSM Addresses
- IGMPv3 and SSM
- PIM-SM and SSM
- SSM Case Study
Chapter 6: Multicast and Policy
- Multicast and Policy Overview
- Controlling PIM Join and Register Messages
- Controlling BSR Messages
- Controlling MSDP SA Messages
- Implementing Multicast Scoping
Pre-requisites:
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.
Students should also attend the Introduction to the Junos Operating System (IJOS), Junos Routing Essentials (JRE), and Junos Intermediate Routing (JIR) courses prior to attending this class.
Is a certificate of completion available to students after completing their class?
Yes.
This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.
Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.
