Enabling And Disabling Flooding Of Unknown Multicast Traffic - Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 9900 Series Network Configuration Manual

Configuring IP Multicast Switching
You can also disable IPv6 Multicast on the specified VLAN or SPB service by entering:
-> ipv6 multicast vlan 2 admin-state disable
-> ipv6 multicast service 10 admin-state disable
Or, as an alternative, enter the following commands to restore the IPv6 Multicast status to its default
setting:
-> no ipv6 multicast vlan 2 admin-state
-> no ipv6 multicast service 10 admin-state

Enabling and Disabling Flooding of Unknown Multicast Traffic

When a traffic flow is first seen on a port. there is a brief period of time where traffic may get dropped
before the forwarding information is calculated. When flooding unknown multicast traffic is enabled, no
packets are dropped before the forwarding information is available.
By default, the flooding of unknown multicast traffic is disabled.The following subsections describe how
to enable and disable this function by using the
Enabling Flooding of Unknown Multicast Traffic
You can enable the flooding of unknown multicast traffic on the system by entering
unknown followed by the enable keyword. For example:
-> ipv6 multicast flood-unknown enable
You can also enable the flooding of unknown multicast traffic on a specific VLAN or SPB service by
entering:
-> ipv6 multicast vlan 2 flood-unknown enable
-> ipv6 multicast service 10 flood-unknown enable
Disabling Flooding of Unknown Multicast Traffic
You can disable the flooding of unknown multicast traffic on the system by entering
unknown followed by the disable keyword. For example:
-> ipv6 multicast flood-unknown disable
Or, as an alternative, enter the following command to restore the flooding of unknown multicast traffic to
its default setting:
-> no ipv6 multicast flood-unknown
You can also disable the flooding of unknown multicast traffic on the specified VLAN or SPB service by
entering:
-> ipv6 multicast vlan 2 flood-unknown disable
-> ipv6 multicast service 10 flood-unknown disable
Or, as an alternative, enter the following commands to restore the flooding of unknown multicast traffic to
its default setting:
-> no ipv6 multicast vlan 2 flood-unknown
-> no ipv6 multicast service 10 flood-unknown
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