Chapter 19 Multicast
Figure 70 Advanced Application > Multicast > Multicast Setting > MVR: Group Configuration
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 45 Advanced Application > Multicast > Multicast Setting > MVR: Group Configuration
LABEL | DESCRIPTION |
Multicast | Select a multicast VLAN ID (that you configured in the MVR screen) from the drop- |
VLAN ID | down list box. |
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Name | Enter a descriptive name for identification purposes. |
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Start Address | Enter the starting IP multicast address of the multicast group in dotted decimal |
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| Refer to Section 19.1.1 on page 131 for more information on IP multicast addresses. |
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End Address | Enter the ending IP multicast address of the multicast group in dotted decimal notation. |
| Enter the same IP address as the Start Address field if you want to configure only one |
| IP address for a multicast group. |
| Refer to Section 19.1.1 on page 131 for more information on IP multicast addresses. |
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Add | Click Add to save your changes to the Switch’s |
| these changes if it is turned off or loses power, so use the Save link on the top |
| navigation panel to save your changes to the |
| configuring. |
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Cancel | Click Cancel to begin configuring this screen afresh. |
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MVLAN | This field displays the multicast VLAN ID. |
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Name | This field displays the descriptive name for this setting. |
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Start Address | This field displays the starting IP address of the multicast group. |
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End Address | This field displays the ending IP address of the multicast group. |
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Delete | Select Delete Group and click Delete to remove the selected entry(ies) from the table. |
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Cancel | Select Cancel to clear the checkbox(es) in the table. |
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The following figure shows a network example where ports 1, 2 and 3 on the Switch belong to VLAN 1. In addition, port 7 belongs to the multicast group with VID 200 to receive multicast traffic (the News and Movie channels) from the remote streaming media server, S. Computers A, B and C in VLAN 1 are able to receive the traffic.
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