Sunday, March 31, 2013

Configuring Multicast



Configure Dense Mode


  1. Enable multicast routing
    # ip multicast-routing
  2. Enable pim dense-mode on the interface
    # ip pim dense-mode


Configure Sparse Mode



  1. Enable multicast routing
    # ip multicast-routing
  2. Enable pim sparse-mode on the interface
    # ip pim sparse-mode
  3. Specify RP address
    # ip pim rp-address

Configure Auto-RP


Make sure loopback interface is configured on candidate and mapping agent

  1. Configure auto-rp listener on all multicast interfaces
    # ip pim autorp listener
  2. Configure a router to be a RP candidate
    # ip pim send-rp-announce scope
  3. Configure a router to be a RP mapping agent
    # ip pim send-rp-discovery scope

Verify


ip igmp join-group
ping
sh ip mroute
sh ip pim
sh ip igmp

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