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Figure 6-56. Multicast Interface Configuration screen
This menu allows the assignment of a multicast routing protocol to an IP interface. The IP interface must have been previously configured on the switch.
In addition, IGMP may be enabled or disabled for the selected IP interface.
The available multicast protocols are the Protocol Independent Multicast – Dense Mode
INACT is not a multicast routing protocol. It is used to make a given interface inactive for IP Multicast routing and can still route IP traffic.
Parameter | Description | |
Interface | Name:[ | Allows the entry of the name of the |
] |
| IP interface that is to be configured |
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| for multicasting. This must be a |
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| previously configured IP interface. |
IGMP: <Enabled> | This field can be toggled between | |
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| Enabled and Disabled using the |
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| space bar. This will enable or disable |
IGMP for the IP interface entered above.
Protocol: <INACT> This field can be toggled between
Protocol Independent Multicasting
–Dense Mode (PIMDM), Distance
Vector Multicasting Routing Protocol (DVMRP), and INACT (inactive). INACT is not a multicast routing protocol. It is used to make a given interface inactive for IP Multicast routing yet can still route IP traffic.