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enable you to control the flooding of multicast traffic in your network. For

example, you can define a multicast

any other video feed or combination of feeds.

You define the multicast traffic to be transmitted by specifying a multicast address. You define

the recipients of the multicast traffic by specifying ports and/or specific

members of a multicast

the ports to which

begin on page 23-4.

Note the difference between multicast

devices are assigned to

The members of an AutoTracker

and the ports to which those source devices are connected.

There are several differences between the configuration of multicast

tion of AutoTracker

• You can not configure routing for multicast

cast domains for multicast traffic originating from a multicast address and transmitted to

one or more recipients.

s allow three rules: Port,

• There is not a default multicast

s. All ports (even those that eventually become part of a multicast

start off in the standard AutoTracker default

if you explicitly assign them to one.

• All multicast

s include the multicast policy. This policy specifies the multicast address.

You use the other two rules—Port and

multicast traffic.

23 Multicast VLANs

for all users that want to receive

consist of the ports specified to

address recipients are connected. Instructions for creating multicast

s and AutoTracker

s by examination of the frames that

consist of source devices that fit the

s. The following is a summary of points to note when configuring

. Therefore, you can define rules for all 32 available

s. In AutoTracker

s. Multicast

Address, and multicast policy.

#1, but they only get assigned to a multi-

Address—to define the destination of the

Newscasts or

addresses. The

the multicast traffic and

from those devices.

s and the configura-

s are independent broad-

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