| 7.1 Explaining Multicast |
| 7.1.1 Explaining the Multicast Group Concept |
| 7.1.2 Unicast versus Multicast |
| 7.1.3 Multicast Advantages and Disadvantages |
| 7.1.4 Multicast Applications |
| 7.1.5 IP Multicast Addresses |
| 7.1.6 Layer 2 Multicast Addressing |
| 7.1.7 Multicast Sessions |
| 7.2 IGMP and Layer 2 Issues |
| 7.2.1 Introducing IGMPv2 |
| 7.2.2 IGMPv2 Join Group and Leave Group Messages |
| 7.2.3 Introducing IGMPv3 |
| 7.2.4 IGMPv2 and IGMPv3 Interoperability |
| 7.2.5 Multicast in the Layer 2 Switching Environment |
| 7.2.6 Multicast in Layer 2 Solutions |
| 7.2.7 Cisco Group Management Protocol (CGMP) |
| 7.2.8 IGMP Snooping |
| 7.3 Multicast Routing Protocols |
| 7.3.1 Protocols Used in Multicast |
| 7.3.2 Multicast Distribution Trees |
| 7.3.3 Multicast Distribution Trees Identification |
| 7.3.4 IP Multicast Routing |
| 7.3.5 Protocol-Independent Multicast: Describing PIM-DM |
| 7.3.6 Protocol-Independent Multicast: Describing PIM-SM |
| 7.3.7 PIM Sparse-Dense-Mode |
| 7.4 Multicast Configuration and Verification |
| 7.4.1 Enabling PIM Sparse Mode and Sparse-Dense Mode |
| 7.4.2 Inspecting the Multicast Routing Table |
| 7.4.3 Finding PIM Neighbors |
| 7.4.4 Checking RP Information |
| 7.4.5 Checking the Group State |
| 7.4.6 Configuring a Router to Be a Member of a Group |
| 7.4.7 Configure a Router as a Statically Connected Member |
| 7.4.8 Verifying IGMP Snooping |
| 7.5 Multicast Lab Exercises |
| 7.5.1 Lab 7-1 Implementing IGMP and IGMP Snooping |
| 7.5.2 Lab 7-2 Routing IP Multicast with PIM Dense Mode |
| 7.5.3 Lab 7-3 Routing IP Multicast with PIM Sparse Mode |
| 7.5.4 Lab 7-4 Routing IP Multicast with PIM Sparse-Dense Mode |