Configuring Ipms On A Switch; Enabling And Disabling Ipms On A Switch; Enabling Ipms; Disabling Ipms - Alcatel OmniSwitch 6600 Family Network Configuration Manual

Configuring IP Multicast Switching

Configuring IPMS on a Switch

This section describes how to use Command Line Interface (CLI) commands to enable and disable IP
Multicast Switching (IPMS) switch wide (see
configure a port as a static neighbor (see
and configure a port as a static querier (see
Note. Enabling the maximum multicast flood rate with the
IPMS and non-IPMS multicast traffic. Either do not use this command with IPMS or set flood rates (set
with the interfaces flood rate
In addition, a tutorial is provided in
CLI commands to configure a sample network.
Note. See the "IP Multicast Switching Commands" chapter in the OmniSwitch CLI Reference Guide for
complete documentation of IPMS CLI commands.

Enabling and Disabling IPMS on a Switch

IPMS is disabled by default on a switch. The following subsections describe how to enable and disable
IPMS with the ip multicast switching
Note. You must enable or disable IPMS on an entire switch. You cannot enable IPMS on a per port or per
slot basis.

Enabling IPMS

To enable IPMS on a switch you use the
-> ip multicast switching

Disabling IPMS

To disable IPMS you use the no form of the
-> no ip multicast switching

Configuring and Removing a Static Neighbor

IPMS static neighbor ports receive all multicast streams on the designated VLAN and also receive IGMP
reports for the VLAN. The following subsections describe how to configure and remove a static neighbor
port with the ip multicast static-neighbor
OmniSwitch 6600 Family Network Configuration Guide
"Enabling and Disabling IPMS on a Switch" on page
"Configuring and Removing a Static Neighbor" on page
"Configuring and Removing a Static Querier" on page
command) high enough to accommodate both flood and IPMS traffic.
"IPMS Application Example" on page 26-11
command.
ip multicast switching
ip multicast switching
command.
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Configuring IPMS on a Switch
interfaces flood multicast
that shows how to use
command as shown below:
command as shown below:
26-5),
26-5),
26-6).
command will limit
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