A-4 APPENDIX A: IP MULTICAST ROUTING

Rate Limit

The rate limit determines how fast multicast traffic can travel over the interface in kilobytes per second. Multicast traffic may not exceed this rate limit or the LANplex system will drop packets in order to maintain the set rate. The default is set to 0, which implies no rate limit. In all other instances, the lower the rate limit, the more limited the traffic over the interface.

Displaying To display a multicast interface:

Multicast Interfaces

 

 

 

 

 

 

Top-Level Menu

 

1

From the top level of the Administration Console, enter:

 

system

interface

 

 

 

 

 

 

ip multicast

interface

display

 

 

 

dvmrp

 

 

 

 

 

 

ethernet

route

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

display

 

 

 

 

fddi

arp

 

igmp

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

atm

atmArpServerinterface

 

enable

 

2

Enter the index numbers of the interfaces you want to display.

bridge

multicast

tunnel

 

disable

 

ip

udpHelper

routeDisplay

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ipx

routing

cacheDisplay

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

appletalk

icmpRouterDiscovery

 

 

 

 

 

 

snmp

rip

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

analyzer

ping

 

 

 

 

 

Example multicast interface configuration:

 

 

script

statistics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

logout

Index Local Address

Metric

Threshold RateLimit

State

 

 

 

 

1

 

158.101.112.32

1

1

0

queries

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

pkts

in:0

pkts out:0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

port

3 peers

158.101.112.204

(3.6) (0x8e)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

158.101.112.202

(3.6) (0x8f)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

port

3 groups

224.2.127.255

(3.6) (0x8e)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

224.2.143.24

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

port

4 groups

224.2.143.24

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

224.2.127.225

 

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3Com 6000 manual Rate Limit, Example multicast interface configuration

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