Configuring Ancp Client - Cisco Catalyst 4500 series Administration Manual

Configuring ANCP Client

This chapter describes Access-Network Control Protocol (ANCP) Client on a Catalyst 4500 series
switch. It includes the following sections:
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Note For complete syntax and usage information for the switch commands used in this chapter, see the Cisco
Catalyst 4500 Series Switch Command Reference and related publications at this location:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps4324/index.html
If a command is not in the Catalyst 4500 Series Switch Command Reference, you can locate it in the
Cisco IOS library. See the Cisco IOS Command Reference and related publications at this location:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6350/index.html
About ANCP Client
ANCP Multicast enables you to control multicast traffic on a Catalyst 4500 series switch using either
ANCP (instead of IGMP) or direct static configuration on the CLI. You can configure the switch as an
ANCP client that connects to a remote ANCP server with multicast enabled. You can then initiate joins
and leaves from that server. Use the switch in a system in which a subscriber requests that a digital right
management (DRM) server receive a given channel (multicast) potentially through any private protocol
mechanism.
The ANCP client does not allow more than four multicast streams per-port per-VLAN. If a fifth join
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arrives, it is rejected.
If the digital right management (DRM) server determines that a subscriber is allowed to receive a
multicast, it requests that the ANCP server sends an ANCP join command to the ANCP client (Catalyst
4500 series switch) for the port on which the subscriber is connected.
IGMP snooping must be enabled on an ANCP client (Catalyst 4500 series switch) for processing
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multicast commands (join, leave, leave all requests, and request for active flows report) from the ANCP
server. For information on enabling IGMP snooping. Refer to
OL_28731-01
About ANCP Client, page 38-1
Enabling and Configuring ANCP Client, page 38-2
C H A P T E R
Chapter 27, "Configuring IGMP Snooping
Software Configuration Guide—Release IOS XE 3.6.0E and IOS 15.2(2)E
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