H3C Technologies H3C S10500 Series Switches User Manual

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Follow these steps to enable MLD proxying:

To do…

Use the command…

Remarks

Enter system view

system-view

Enter interface view

interface interface-type
interface-number

Enable the MLD proxying feature

mld proxying enable

Required
Disabled by default.

NOTE:

Each device can have only one interface serving as the MLD proxy interface.

You cannot enable MLD on interfaces with MLD proxying enabled. Moreover, only the mld
require-router-alert, mld send-router-alert, and mld version commands can take effect on such

interfaces.

You cannot enable other IPv6 multicast routing protocols (such as IPv6 PIM-DM or IPv6 PIM-SM) on
interfaces with MLD proxying enabled, or vice versa. However, the source-lifetime, source-policy, and
ssm-policy commands configured in IPv6 PIM view can still take effect.

You cannot enable MLD proxying on a VLAN interface with MLD snooping enabled, or vice versa.

Configuring IPv6 multicast forwarding on a downstream

interface

Typically, to avoid duplicate multicast flows, only queriers can forward IPv6 multicast traffic. On MLD

proxy devices, a downstream interface must be a querier in order to forward IPv6 multicast traffic to

downstream hosts. If the interface has failed in the querier election, you must manually enable IPv6

multicast forwarding on this interface.
Follow these steps to enable IPv6 multicast forwarding on a downstream interface

To do…

Use the command…

Remarks

Enter system view

system-view

Enter interface view

interface interface-type
interface-number

Enable IPv6 multicast forwarding on a
non-querier downstream interface

mld proxying forwarding

Required
Disabled by default.

CAUTION:

On a multi-access network with more than one MLD proxy devices, you cannot enable IPv6 multicast
forwarding on any other non-querier downstream interface after one of the downstream interfaces of

these MLD proxy devices has been elected as the querier. Otherwise, duplicate multicast flows might be

received on the multi-access network.

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