Chapter 24 Multicast

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

Figure 105 Advanced Application > Multicast > Multicast Setting > MVR: Group Configuration

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 71 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-down list

VLAN ID

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 24.1.1 on page 187 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 24.1.1 on page 187 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 begin configuring this screen afresh.

 

 

MVLAN

This field displays the multicast VLAN ID.

 

 

Name

This field displays the descriptive name for this setting.

 

 

Start Address

This field displays the starting IP address of the multicast group.

 

 

End Address

This field displays the ending IP address of the multicast group.

 

 

Delete

Select Delete All or Delete Group and click Delete to remove the selected entry(ies) from

 

the table.

 

 

Cancel

Select Cancel to clear the checkbox(es) in the table.

 

 

24.8.1 MVR Configuration Example

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

 

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