Confining unknown-unicast floods to the local site, Optional.) – H3C Technologies H3C S6800 Series Switches User Manual

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Enable IP multicast routing on all VTEPs and transport network devices.

Configure IGMP and a multicast routing protocol on transport network devices. Because a VTEP
can be both a multicast source and multicast group member, H3C recommends that you use
BIDIR-PIM.

NOTE:

A multicast-mode VXLAN does not use unicast routing tunnels to forward flood traffic when its multicast
routing tunnels are down.

To configure a multicast-mode VXLAN:

Step Command

Remarks

1.

Enter system view.

system-view

N/A

2.

Enable multicast routing.

multicast routing

By default, multicast routing is disabled.

3.

Return to system view.

quit

N/A

4.

Enter VSI view.

vsi vsi-name N/A

5.

Enter VXLAN view.

vxlan vxlan-id N/A

6.

Assign a multicast group

address for flood traffic, and
specify a source IP address

for multicast VXLAN packets.

group group-address
source source-address

By default, a VXLAN uses unicast mode for
flood traffic. No multicast group address or

source IP address is specified for multicast
VXLAN packets.
You must assign all VTEPs in a multicast-mode
VXLAN to the same multicast group.
For VXLANs that use the same multicast group

address, you must configure the same source
IP address for their multicast VXLAN packets.

7.

Enter the view of the

interface that provides the
source IP address for

multicast VXLAN packets.

interface interface-type
interface-number

The source source-address option in the
group command specifies the source IP

address of multicast VXLAN packets.

8.

Enable the IGMP host
function.

igmp host enable

By default, the IGMP host function is disabled
on an interface.
The IGMP host function enables the interface
to send IGMP reports in response to IGMP

queries before it can receive traffic from the
multicast group.

Confining unknown-unicast floods to the local site

By default, the VTEP floods unknown unicast frames received from the local site to the following interfaces

in the frame's VXLAN:

All site-facing interfaces except for the incoming interface.

All VXLAN tunnel interfaces.

To confine unknown-unicast floods to site-facing interfaces for a VXLAN:

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