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Rate Limit The rate limit determines how many multicast packets can travel over the interface in kilobytes-per-second. The LANplex system drops multicast traffic that travels faster than this rate. The default is set to 0, which implies no rate limit is set. In all other instances, the lower the rate limit, the more limited the traffic over the interface.

Multicast Tunnels Multicast tunnels are logical connections between two multicast routers through one or more unicast routers. The multicast router at the local endpoint of the tunnel encapsulates multicast packets in a format that unicast routers can interpret and forward. The multicast router at the remote endpoint decapsulates the packets into their multicast format. Tunnels are virtual links through the unicast IP network.

Multicast tunnels have characteristics similar to those of a multicast interface: a DVMRP metric value, a TTL threshold, and a rate limit. When you define a multicast tunnel, you also specify the destination address of the remote multicast router that is the remote endpoint of the tunnel.

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