Ommon Ulticast Configuration; Introduction To Common Multicast Configuration; Common Multicast Configuration - 3Com 8807 Configuration Manual

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Introduction to
Common Multicast
Configuration
Common Multicast
Configuration
Enabling Multicast
Routing
Configuring Multicast
Routing Table Size Limit
C
OMMON
C
ONFIGURATION
The multicast common configuration is for both the multicast group management
protocol and the multicast routing protocol. The configuration includes enabling IP
multicast routing, displaying multicast routing table and multicast forwarding
table, etc.
Common multicast configuration includes:
Enabling multicast routing
■
Configuring multicast route limit
■
Clearing MFC (Multicast Forwarding Cache) forwarding entries or its statistic
■
information
Configuring managed multicast
■
Clearing route entries from the kernel multicast routing table
■
Configuring broadcast/multicast suppression
■
Enable multicast routing first before enabling multicast routing protocol.
Perform the following configuration in system view.
Table 423 Enable multicast routing
Operation
Enable multicast routing
Disable multicast routing
By default, multicast routing is disabled.
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CAUTION: Multicast routing must be enabled before other multicast
configurations can take effect.
Because too many multicast routing table entries may exhaust the router memory,
you need to limit the size of the multicast routing table.
Table 424 Configure multicast routing table size limit
Operation
Enter system view
Configure multicast routing
table size limit
M
ULTICAST
Command
multicast routing-enable
undo multicast routing-enable
Command
system-view
multicast route-limit limit
Remarks
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By default, the maximum
multicast routing table entries
is 512