Brocade BigIron RX Series Configuration Guide User Manual

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BigIron RX Series Configuration Guide

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Multicast Listening Discovery
(MLD)

Release 02.6.00 adds support for MLD Snooping
(MLDv1 and MLDv2) on Brocade BigIron RX devices
running IPv6.

Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:

“Configuring IPv6

Multicast Features”

Section:

“Multicast

Listener Discovery and
source specific multicast
protocols (MLDv2)”

IGMPv3 and IGMP Snooping

In Release 02.6.00 of the Multi-Service IronWare
software, creating an IGMP static-group allows the
BigIron RX switch having L2 interfaces configured
with snooping to pull traffic from upstream sources
using IGMP joins. When using the uplink option, you
avoid burning a dedicated port. This is supported
for IGMP v2 and v3.

Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:

“Configuring IP

Multicast Protocols”

Section:

“IGMP v3”

IGMP v3 Static Client

In Release 02.6.00 of the Multi-Service IronWare
software, creating an IGMP static-group allows the
BigIron RXswitch having L2 interfaces configured
with snooping to pull traffic from upstream sources
using IGMP joins. When using the uplink option, you
avoid burning a dedicated port. This is supported
for IGMP v2 and v3.

Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:

“Configuring IP

Multicast Protocols”

Section:

“Creating a static

IGMP group”

IGMP v3 Fast Leave and
Tracking

In Release 02.6.00 of the Multi-Service IronWare
software, you can configure a device running IGMP
Snooping to immediately remove a VLAN from the IP
multicast group when it detects a fast leave
message on a specified VLAN.

Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:

“Configuring IP

Multicast Protocols”

Section:

“Enabling

membership tracking and
fast leave”

Static Route ARP Validate
Next Hop

Beginning with release 02.6.00, you can configure
the BigIron RX to perform multicast validation
checks on the destination MAC address, the sender
and target IP addresses, and the source MAC
address.

Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:

“Configuring IP

Multicast Protocols”

Section:

“Next hop

validation check”

IGMP Proxy per VLAN or
instance

Introduced in version 02.6.00 of the Multi-Service
IronWare software, multicast traffic can be reduced
by configuring an BigIron RX switch to issue IGMP
host messages on behalf of hosts that the
configured router discovers through standard PIM
interfaces. The router is then able to act as a proxy
for the discovered hosts and perform IGMP tasks
upstream of the discovered hosts. Where there are
multiple IGMP hosts downstream, this removes the
need to send multiple messages.

Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:

“Configuring IP

Multicast Traffic
Reduction”

Section:

“Multicast traffic

reduction per VLAN”

Layer 4 features

TABLE 9

Summary of enhancements in release 02.6.00 (Continued)

Enhancement

Description

See page

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