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19.7 MVR Group Configuration

All source ports and receiver ports belonging to a multicast group can receive multicast data sent to this multicast group.

Configure MVR IP multicast group address(es) in the Group Configuration screen. Click Group Configuration in the MVR screen.

Note: A port can belong to more than one multicast VLAN. However, IP multicast group addresses in different multicast VLANs cannot overlap.

Figure 64 MVR: Group Configuration

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 43 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.

Name

Enter a descriptive name for identification purposes.

 

 

Start Address

Enter the starting IP multicast address of the multicast group in dotted decimal

 

notation.

 

Refer to Section 19.1.1 on page 145 for more information on IP multicast addresses.

 

 

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 145 for more information on IP multicast addresses.

 

 

Add

Click Add to save your changes to the switch’s run-time memory. The switch loses

 

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 non-volatile memory when you are done

 

configuring.

Cancel

Click Cancel to reset the fields.

 

 

MVLAN

This field displays the multicast VLAN ID.

 

 

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