Ip multicast enhancements – Brocade BigIron RX Series Configuration Guide User Manual

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IP multicast enhancements

Default Route ECMP

This feature allows for load distribution of traffic
among the available default route next-hops.

Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:

“Configuring IP”

Section:

“Default route

ECMP”

Transparent Firewall Mode

The Transparent Firewall mode feature allows
users to insert a Firewall in front of their existing
network without changing the statically defined
IP addresses of their network-connected devices.
This will allow the users to permit selected
devices from a subnet to cross the firewall while
access to other devices on the same subnet are
denied.

Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:

“VLANs”

Section:

“Transparent

firewall mode”

TABLE 19

IP multicast enhancements

Enhancement

Description

See...

MBGP

Multiprotocol BGP allows for the inclusion of
information other than IPv4 routes via BGP
packets is available in this release.

Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:

“Configuring

MBGP”

Multicast Source Discover Protocol
(MSDP)

This release supports the Multicast Source
Discovery Protocol (MSDP). It is used by
Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Sparse
routers to exchange routing information for
PIM Sparse multicast groups across PIM
Sparse domains.

Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:

“Configuring IP

Multicast Protocols”

Section:

“Configuring

Multicast Source Discovery
Protocol (MSDP)”

MSDP Mesh Groups

This release supports Multicast Source
Discovery Protocol (MSDP) Mesh Groups. This
feature allows you to connect several RPs to
each other which reduces the forwarding of
SA messages within a domain.

Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide

Chapter:

“Configuring IP

Multicast Protocols”

Section:

“Configuring MSDP

mesh group”

IGMP v3

IGMP v3 provides selective filtering of traffic
based on traffic source.

Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:

“Configuring IP

Multicast Protocols”

Section:

“IGMP v3”

PIM-SSM v4

PIM-SSM is a routing protocol used for source
specific multicast groups and is used in
conjunction with IGMPv3

Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter:

“Configuring IP

Multicast Protocols”

Section:

“PIM-SSMv4”

TABLE 18

Layer 3 enhancements (Continued)

Enhancement

Description

See...

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