Configuration Requirements; Enabling Pim Sm Traffic Snooping - Dell PowerConnect B-RX Configuration Manual

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PIM SM traffic snooping

Configuration requirements

To configure PIM SM traffic snooping:
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NOTE
If the "route-only" feature is enabled on a BigIron RX, PIM SM traffic snooping will not be supported.
NOTE
Multicast protocols can only be applied to 1 physical interface. You must create multiple VLANs with
both taggged and untagged ports and ve's under which you configure pim.

Enabling PIM SM traffic snooping

To enable PIM SM traffic snooping, enter the following commands at the global CONFIG level of the
CLI.
BigIron RX(config)# ip multicast
BigIron RX(config)# ip pimsm-snooping
The first command enables IP multicast traffic reduction. This feature is similar to PIM SM traffic
snooping but listens only for IGMP information, not PIM SM information. You must enable both IP
multicast traffic reduction and PIM SM traffic snooping to enable the device to listen for PIM SM
join and prune messages.
Syntax: [no] ip multicast [active | passive]
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IP multicast traffic reduction must be enabled on the device that will be running PIM SM
snooping. The PIM SM traffic snooping feature requires IP multicast traffic reduction.
NOTE
Use the passive mode of IP multicast traffic reduction instead of the active mode. The passive
mode assumes that a router is sending group membership queries as well as join and prune
messages on behalf of receivers. The active mode configures the device to send group
membership queries.
All the device ports connected to the source and receivers or routers must be in the same
port-based VLAN.
The PIM SM snooping feature assumes that the group source and the device are in different
subnets and communicate through a router. The source must be in a different IP subnet than
the receivers. A PIM SM router sends PIM join and prune messages on behalf of a multicast
group receiver only when the router and the source are in different subnets. When the receiver
and source are in the same subnet, they do not need the router in order to find one another.
They find one another directly within the subnet.
The device forwards all IP multicast traffic by default. Once you enable IP multicast traffic
reduction and PIM SM traffic snooping, the device initially blocks all PIM SM traffic instead of
forwarding it. The device forwards PIM SM traffic to a receiver only when the device receives a
join message from the receiver. Consequently, if the source and the downstream router are in
the same subnet, and PIM SM traffic snooping is enabled, the device blocks the PIM SM traffic
and never starts forwarding the traffic. This is because the device never receives a join
message from the downstream router for the group. The downstream router and group find
each other without a join message because they are in the same subnet.
BigIron RX Series Configuration Guide
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