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These labs use Nick Russo's multicast topology from his SPv4 workbook. The labs are influenced from Russo's workbook, as well as books such as IP Multicast, Volume I & II by Loveless, Blair, and Durai, and Interdomain Multicast Routing by Edwards. The book, Developing IP Multicast Networks by Williamson, is an excellent book as well for building a foundational understanding of multicast.

To begin, run the following command on your containerlab machine:

cd ccie-spv5.1-labs/
containerlab deploy -t russo-svp4/russo-svp4.clab.yml --reconfigure

Once all nodes are started, run the following command to transfer the config files to all nodes. These files will be used to change between startup configs for subsequent labs.

python3 transfer_configs_to_nodes.py

The script will prompt you for a directory name. Enter "russo-svp4".

Use the MTPutty session file located in russo-svp4/russo-svp4_putty_sessions.xml to quickly setup your SSH sessions to the nodes. Go to Server - Import Tree and browse for the file.

When you are done with the lab, use the following command to wipe it:

containerlab destroy -t russo-svp4/russo-svp4.clab.yml