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IP Multicast Protocols
Chapter
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Table 4 displays the individual devices and the IP Multicast features they support.
TABLE 4
Supported IP Multicast features
Features supported FSX 800
FSX 1600
FCX ICX 6610 ICX 6430 ICX 6450
IGMP (V1 and V2)
a. Second and third generation modules
b. In a mixed stack
Yes a
Yes Yes No Yes b
IGMP v2 Fast-Leave Yes a Yes Yes No Yes b
IGMP v3 Fast-Leave Yes a Yes Yes No Yes b
IGMP v3 Yes a Yes Yes No Yes b
IGMP Proxy Yes a Yes Yes No Yes b
Multicast Routing PIM Yes a Yes Yes No Yes b
PMRI Yes a Yes Yes No Yes b
PIM-SSM Yes a Yes Yes No Yes b
Multicast over Multi-VRF Yes a Yes Yes No Yes b
IP Multicast Boundaries Yes a Yes Yes No Yes b
PIM Dense (PIM DM) Yes a Yes Yes No Yes b
PIM Sparse (PIM SM) Yes a Yes Yes No Yes b
Multicast Source Discovery Protocol
(MSDP)
Yes a Yes Yes No Yes b
MSDP Mesh Groups Yes a Yes Yes No Yes b
MSDP Anycast RP Yes a Yes Yes No Yes b
PIM Anycast RP Yes a Yes Yes No Yes b
L3 multicast hardware resource sharing Yes a Yes Yes No Yes b
Modifying the Prune Wait Timer Yes a Yes Yes No Yes b
Multicast Non-Stop Routing v4 Yes a Yes Yes No Yes b
This chapter describes how to configure devices for the following IP multicast protocol and
versions:
• Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) V1 and V2
• Protocol Independent Multicast Dense mode (PIM DM) V1 (draft-ietf-pim-dm-05) and V2
(draft-ietf-pim-v2-dm-03)
• PIM Sparse mode (PIM SM) V2 (RFC 2362)
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