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Configuring Multicast Offload on the Satellite nV System
• As the same traffic stream comes in from both the hosts, the satellites pick a designated multicast
forwarder at discovery and continue to replicate from that host until that host goes away or loses its core
connectivity. Thus the offload topology is a full active / active system.
Figure 17: IGMP Join Programming (Access L2 and Core L2/BVI)
Figure 18: Multicast Offload Data Flow
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Overview of Multicast Offload
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