Igmp ssm mapping – H3C Technologies H3C S7500E Series Switches User Manual

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added to the list; if the change was to an Exclude source list, these are the addresses that

were deleted from the list.

z

BLOCK: indicates that the Source Address fields in this Group Record contain a list of the

sources that the system no longer wishes to hear from, for packets sent to the specified

multicast address. If the change was to an Include source list, these are the addresses that

were deleted from the list; if the change was to an Exclude source list, these are the

addresses that were added to the list.

IGMP SSM Mapping

The IGMP SSM mapping feature allows you to configure static IGMP SSM mappings on the last

hop router to provide SSM support for receiver hosts running IGMPv1 or IGMPv2. The SSM

model assumes that the last hop router is aware of the desired multicast sources when

receivers join multicast groups.

z

When a host running IGMPv3 joins a multicast group, it can explicitly specify one or more

multicast sources in its IGMPv3 report.

z

A host running IGMPv1 or IGMPv2, however, cannot specify multicast source addresses in

its report. In this case, you need to configure the IGMP SSM mapping feature to translate

the (*, G) information in the IGMPv1 or IGMPv2 report into (G, INCLUDE, (S1, S2...))

information.

Figure 5-3 Network diagram for IGMP SSM mapping

SSM

IGMPv1 report

IGMPv2 report

IGMPv3 report

Router A

Querier

Host A (IGMPv1)

Host B (IGMPv2)

Host C (IGMPv3)

Receiver

Receiver

Receiver

As shown in

Figure 5-3

, on an SSM network, Host A, Host B and Host C are running IGMPv1,

IGMPv2 and IGMPv3 respectively. To provide SSM service for all the hosts while it is infeasible

to run IGMPv3 on Host A and Host B, you need to configure the IGMP SSM mapping feature on

Router A.

With the IGMP SSM mapping feature configured, when Router A receives an IGMPv1 or

IGMPv2 report, it checks the multicast group address G carried in the message:

z

If G is not in the SSM group range, Router A cannot provide the SSM service but the ASM

service.

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