In Depth...............................................................................................................................................114
Internal Route Processors....................................................................................................................114
Available Route Processors...........................................................................................................116
Supervisor Engine Modules.................................................................................................................120
Supervisor Engines I and II...........................................................................................................120
Supervisor Engine III....................................................................................................................121
Using the Supervisor Engine.........................................................................................................122
Etherport Modules...............................................................................................................................122
Port Security..................................................................................................................................123
Enabling RIP on an RSM .....................................................................................................................126
Viewing the MAC Addresses..............................................................................................................129
Clearing MAC Addresses....................................................................................................................131
Chapter 7: IP Multicast..................................................................................................................................137
In Depth...............................................................................................................................................137
IP Multicasting Overview....................................................................................................................137
Broadcast.......................................................................................................................................138
Unicast . ..........................................................................................................................................138
Multicast........................................................................................................................................139
IP Multicasting Addresses...................................................................................................................140
The Multicast IP Structure............................................................................................................140
Multicast Distribution Tree...........................................................................................................142
Multicast Forwarding....................................................................................................................143
IGMP Protocols.............................................................................................................................143
IGMPv1.........................................................................................................................................145
IGMPv2.........................................................................................................................................146
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