IPV4 MULTICAST
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Layer 2 Addressing
Group Ranges
239.142.57.6
11101111 10001110 00111001 00000110
224.0.0.0/24
Local network control
224.0.1.0/24
Internetwork control
01-00-5E-0E-39-06
00000001 00000000 01011110 00001110 00111001 00000110
Terminology
Reverse Path Forwarding (RPF)
Verifies that multicast traffic travels in the reverse direction of
unicast traffic, away from the tree root
Cisco Group Management Protocol (CGMP)
A proprietary protocol used by switches to obtain multicast
membership information for end hosts (deprecated)
Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)
Hosts send IGMP requests to local routers to join multicast groups
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IGMP Configuration
IGMP Support
Router(config-if)# ip igmp [version <#>]
IGMP Snooping
Switch(config)# ip igmp snooping
Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM)
Dense Mode
The initial tree encompasses all multicast routers; after a period of
time, routers without IGMP members prune back branches
Sparse Mode
The tree is grown from a central rendezvous point out to the
multicast source and recipients
Sparse-Dense Mode
Allows a PIM-enabled interface to function in either sparse or dense
mode per group
PIMv1
Provides automatic RP discovery with Auto-RP (Cisco proprietary)
PIMv2
Automatic RP discovery is accomplished by the bootstrap router
(BSR) method (standard)
232.0.0.0/8
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Source-specific
233.0.0.0/8
GLOP (RFC 3180)
239.0.0.0/8 Admin-scoped
Common Groups
224.0.0.1
All hosts
224.0.0.2
All routers
224.0.1.39
Cisco RP Announce
224.0.1.40
Cisco RP Discovery
Distribution Trees
Shared
A common set of links which carry all
multicast traffic; statically configured
Source-Rooted
Provides the shortest paths from the
source to receivers
IGMP
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IGMPv1
Original IGMP specification
IGMPv2
Adds support for dynamic leave requests
and querier election to original IGMP
IGMPv3
Adds multicast source filtering to v2
IGMP Snooping
A switch passively inspects IGMP
requests to determine which hosts
should receive multicast traffic
IGMP Troubleshooting
PIM Configuration
ip multicast-routing
!
interface FastEthernet0/0
ip pim {sparse-mode | dense-mode | sparse-dense-mode}
ip pim version {1 | 2}
show ip igmp
show ip igmp group
show ip igmp interface
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show ip igmp snooping
ip igmp join-group
RP Configuration
PIM Troubleshooting
Manual
ip pim rp-address <IP>
show ip mroute
Auto-RP Mapping Agent
ip pim send-rp-discovery scope <TTL>
show ip pim interface
Auto-RP Candidate
ip pim send-rp-announce <interface>
show ip pim neighbor
BSR Candidate
ip pim bsr-candidate <interface>
show ip pim rp [mapping]
BSR RP Candidate ip pim rp-candidate <interface>
show ip rpf <IP>
by Jeremy Stretch
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