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

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Field

Description

Number of Multicast Address Records

This field indicates how many IPv6 multicast address records

are present in this report message.

Multicast Address Record(i)

This field represents information of each IPv6 multicast address

the host listens to on the interface from which the report

message is sent, including record type, IPv6 multicast address,

and IPv6 multicast source address on the sender (i= 1, 2, ... m,

where m represents the number of IPv6 multicast address

records).

MLD SSM Mapping

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

router to provide SSM support for receiver hosts running MLDv1. The SSM model assumes that the

last hop router is aware of the desired IPv6 multicast sources when receivers join IPv6 multicast

groups.

z

When a host running MLDv2 joins a multicast group, it can explicitly specify one or more multicast

sources in its MLDv2 report.

z

A host running MLDv1, however, cannot specify multicast source addresses in its MLDv1 report.

In this case, you need to configure the MLD SSM mapping feature to translate the (*, G)

information in the MLDv1 report into (G, INCLUDE, (S1, S2...)) information.

Figure 12-5 Network diagram for MLD SSM mapping

As shown in

Figure 12-5

, on an IPv6 SSM network, Host A and Host B are running MLDv1 and Host C

is running MLDv2. To provide SSM service for all the hosts while it is infeasible to run MLDv2 on Host

A and Host B, you need to configure the MLD SSM mapping feature on Router A.

With the MLD SSM mapping feature configured, when Router A receives an MLDv1 report, it checks

the IPv6 multicast group address G carried in the message:

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