Chapter 17 Multicast Configuration

Figure 131 Multicast Configuration: Multicast Settings: View Profile

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 96 Multicast Configuration: Multicast Settings: View Profile

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Profile Name

Select a profile name from the drop-down list box.

 

 

Start Address

This field displays the starting multicast IP address for a range of multicast IP

 

addresses to which you want this IGMP filter profile to allow access.

 

 

End Address

This field displays the ending multicast IP address for a range of IP addresses to which

 

you want this IGMP filter profile to allow access.

 

 

Close

Click Close to close this screen.

 

 

17.3 MVR

Multicast VLAN Registration (MVR) is designed for applications (such as Media-on-Demand (MoD)) that use multicast traffic across a service provider network.

MVR allows one single multicast VLAN to be shared among different subscriber VLANs on the network. While isolated in different subscriber VLANs, connected devices can subscriber to and unsubscribe from the multicast stream in the multicast VLAN. This improves bandwidth utilization with reduced multicast traffic in the subscriber VLANs and simplifies multicast group management.

You must enable IGMP snooping to use MVR. However, MVR only responds to IGMP join and leave control messages from multicast groups that are configured under MVR. Join and leave reports from other multicast groups are managed by IGMP snooping.

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