Dynamic Intelligent Multicasting - Avaya P580 User Manual

Dynamic Intelligent Multicasting

The Learning
Process, IGMP
Snooping
The
Administration
Process;
Management and
Pruning
Document No. 650-100-700, Issue 1
In an environment that uses IGMP (and an IP multicast routing protocol,
optionally), Dynamic Intelligent Multicasting may be used. The ability of
the switch to dynamically set up sessions and add or remove client and
router ports is particularly useful in a flexible multicast environment where
there are many multicast sessions to administer. The protocols and
mechanisms used to perform Intelligent Multicasting are enabled or
disabled across all VLANs on a switch. The Dynamic Intelligent
Multicasting process is split into three parts: Learning, Administration, and
Dissemination.
To learn which sessions must be configured, or which client or router ports
must be added or removed, a mechanism to draw that information from the
layer 3 protocols must be enabled. For the Avaya Multiservice Switch,
IGMP Snooping is that mechanism. IGMP Snooping can learn about
multicast sessions from IP interfaces that reside on the same switch.
* Note: IGMP Snooping is only available for VLANs that have an
IGMP interface enabled.
Enabling DVMRP on an interface also enables IGMP.
At the core of all Intelligent Multicast functionality, the Administration
Process is manipulated by manual configuration and dynamic
configuration, and implements a pruning function. In a dynamically
configured environment, the Administration Process takes the information
from the Learning Process (from IGMP Snooping) or from one of the
clients in the Dissemination Process and creates the AFT table entries which
will perform the actual Intelligent Multicast functionality on the local
switch. It also passes the new information to the servers in the
Dissemination Process for distribution to other switches in the same VLAN.
The Administration Process views all data inputs as applications. Manual
configuration is the MGMT (management) application, IGMP Snooping is
the IGMP application, the LGMP client is the LGMP application, and the
CGMP snooper is the CGMP application.
The pruning functionality of the Administration Process is a cleanup facility
that prevents stale information from existing in the Intelligent Multicast
tables in the event an application fails to perform its own cleanup. There are
three types of pruning, each with their own timers: session, client port, and
router port.
Automatic Session Pruning, if enabled, will remove a session if that session
has not been active for Session Pruning Time.
Managing Intelligent Multicasting
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