Chapter 15. Configuring Multicast Distributed Switching
This chapter describes the required and optional tasks for configuring multicast distributed switching (MDS). For a complete description of MDS commands used in this chapter, refer to Chapter 16, "Multicast Distributed Switching Commands." For documentation of other commands that appear in this chapter, you can search online at www.cisco.com .
Prior to MDS, IP multicast traffic was always switched at the RP in the RSP-based platforms. Starting with Cisco IOS Release11.2GS, IP multicast traffic can be distributed switched on RSP-based platforms with VIPs. Furthermore, MDS is the only multicast switching method on the Cisco 12000 Gigabit Switched Router (GSR), starting with Cisco IOS ...
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