Hello everyone, and welcome to the protocol independent multicast
deep dive on Pluralsight. My name is Tim McConnaughy, and I'll be
accompanying you on this journey to learn the ins, outs, and
inbetweens of multicast routing.
Before we begin, let's talk about prerequisites. This course
assumes no specific multicast knowledge, but will not cover every
permutation of multicast deployments.
I'll offer a brief overview of IGMP/MLD,
the protocol that multicast receivers use to signal
their interest in particular traffic.
I would also suggest familiarity with IPv6. This course will cover both
IPv4 and IPv6 multicast, and to make sense of the IPv6 operation
requires good understanding of IPv6, in general.
Throughout this course, I will demonstrate multicast deployments using PIM
and will be analyzing packet captures as well. For this reason, it would be
good to understand how to read Wireshark captures.
Pluralsight has a great library of content, and luckily every one of these
topics is covered. Here are a few suggestions if you feel weak in any of
these areas. It's not required, of course,
but multicast routing is built on the back of many other technologies,
and a strong foundation helps cement understanding. If you want to come
back after tackling the prerequisites or if you want to dive right into
PIM instead, I'm here when you're ready. Now buckle up, and let's get
ready to look at a protocol that's been in the networking world for a very long time, but which many still haven't had the chance to learn.