Questions tagged [multicast]
For questions about multicast communications and protocols.
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In PIM Sparse Mode, can the Rendezvous Point be the first or last hop router?
In tutorials and configuration examples, usually, the Rendezvous Point is described as the central registry to match multicast senders with receivers. FHRs and LHRs send PIM messages to the RP to be ...
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What's so special about the multicast address range?
I'm reading a little on IP multicast and have trouble understanding the significance of multicast address range (224.0.0.0 - 239.255.255.255). What makes this range significant? Why not multicast on ...
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How to enable Inter-VLAN multicast traffic on a layer 3 Siemens RX1510 Network Switch using IGMP?
I have a single Layer 3 Siemens RX1510 network switch split into 4 separate VLANs on different subsets.
Name | Gateway | Subnet
VLAN1 | 198.97.100.123 | 255.255.255.0
VLAN2 |...
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Layering unicast addressing over multicasts
My question has to do with layering of unicast over multicast and has two parts.
Part 1. IP unicast over MAC multicast
First part of the question is whether there is a standard that prohibits use of ...
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How do hosts subscribe to multicast addresses?
So I am having a hard time finding materials online that explains how multicast address are set.
I understand what unicast is: Basically one to one communication. In this scenario, an address ...
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How can MLDv2 work according to the RFCs 3810 and 4606?
When IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration is happening, an interface/node has to join the all-nodes multicast address and the solicited-node multicast address AFTER forming a "tentative" ...
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Linux local multicast egress follows FORWARD chain when smcroute is active [closed]
Rather than a configuration issue, this is a "Is this expected behaviour" question. Given the following test box (Stock Ubuntu 18.04 LTS):
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Interaction between multicast sources and first-hop routers (possibily DRs)
I might be missing the obvious but I would like to know how the first-hop routers are aware that multicast sources are sending multicast packets and such packets are eligible for the PIM-register ...
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Unicast to Multicast possible?
could I check if it is possible to convert TCP traffic to UDP multicast and if there are any appliances / switches that can do so?
E.g. Workstations A, B and C establishes a TCP connection with ...
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How to handle multicast address collisions?
Assume 2 multicast IP addresses IP1 and IP2 whose mac addresses are same due to collision
Let's say a host's NIC has joined multicast stream IP1 and another host on the original host's subnet joined ...
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IP pim sparse or dense mode
I have an IF/RF station that is receiving RF signals from satellites, then converted to IP to be encoded, decoded, multiplexed, and modulated again to RF so that it's sent to wireless and wired ...
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Why not put unicast address in IPv6 packet containing NDP neighbor solicitation instead of solicited-node multicast address?
This is a follow-up question to Why is the NDP Neighbor Solicitation message sent to the solicited-node address?.
Summary: say I would send an IPv6 packet and put the unicast address of the host I ...
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Will pinging the multicast “all hosts” IP 224.0.0.1 fill my ARP cache with all hosts on my current subnet?
Just wondering in case I ever have a want / need to see all the hosts on my subnet.
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Function of the P-bit flag in an IPv6 multicast
Currently I'm trying to learn (common) things about IPv6 and started with the address format and the address scopes. Finally I reached the multicast part where my problem with the definiton of the ...
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Can communication to broadcast 224.0.0.1 be made to reach hosts outside of the local subnet?
I been asked the question if it is possible for an a IP host to use multicast to address 224.0.0.1 in order to reach (and get a response from) another host which is not on the local network segment ...
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Routing Multicast on a single L3 switch
I am currently testing how to route Multicast on a single L3 switch. I am currently testing 2 Vlans. I researched and I know I have to use PIM or Mrouter port for this scenario but that is for when ...
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Avoid bottleneck in UDP multicast
The question is that a server is serving a multicast group with UDP. Lets say that its a file server and it will be serving big files (~10GB). Now we have a multicast group with multiple clients. Some ...
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Multicast in one VLAN
I need to receive multicast traffic over L2 segment on my client machine. But for some reason I am unable to do it.
To my understanding with such scheme I should receive traffic if inbetween Juniper ...
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Multicast in enterprise network
Once I have heard from a professional that multicast is forbidden (or not suggested or not allowed) in enterprise networks from 2014. (He referenced to a standard or recommendation document or ...
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Purpose of prune message in rpf
I read that when a multicast aware router without receivers received a multicast message, the router will send an upstream prune message. I don't understand what is the purpose of the prune message. I ...
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Setting Destination MAC address for RTP/UDP packets
I have a requirement where I have to send the UDP packet to a destination multicast IPv6 address. In addition to that the packets must also have corresponding destination multicast MAC address set. I ...
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To multicast or not to multicast over LTE? [closed]
I have an IOT device with static IP connected to a Mikrotik LTE device on ether1. The IOT host sends a multicast packet every second. The packet contains the IP and MAC of the host.
IP-Multicast: ...
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Defining what type of casting based on IPv4 address
I'm kinda new to networking. I have a small question, how can I determine what type of casting (unicast, multicast or broadcast) is it based on IPv4 address. For example: 142.55.172.200
I tried to ...
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Cisco 49XX multicast flooding
I have problem with multicast on cisco 4948.
I've got vlan 9 with muilticast, which configured on several ports. Switch floods multicast traffic on all ports configured with vlan 9. It consumes link ...
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What practical concerns led to the use of multicast?
Answers to a question on SF explain the differences between broadcast and multicast. It is not clear yet for me which practical concerns brought in the usage of multicast.
My understanding is that, ...
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Users on one VLAN cannot access multicast resources [closed]
Feel like I'm getting closer to fixing my issue...
This is the simplified version of the multicast...
-No RPF Failure
-pim sparse mode on all interfaces
-multicast routing enabled
I forced a group ...
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Is it possible to use 802.11n to send multicast?
I have tried to set the wifi multicast rates and find that all the multicast packets are send by 80211g, so that the max rate is 54M. Can I use the 80211n to achieve higher rate?
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How to control unwanted UDP traffic (Broadcast & Multicast) on Cisco Router 2911?
Please suggest, we are getting UDP traffic either broadcast or multicast in router 2911 which cause 95%+ utilisation of the router. And we got error in link and business impact due to this. Company ...
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OSPF and its use of Multicast
When it comes to OSPF and its use of multicast, am I correct in believing that IGMP forwarding and an IGMP querier is still required within the local segment?
My understanding would be without this, ...
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Is it possible that IPv6 multicast address is shown in the “IPv6 Address” column of the “show ipv6 neighbors” command in Junos?
Is it possible that IPv6 multicast address(i.e address from ff00::/8 address block) is shown in the "IPv6 Address" column of the "show ipv6 neighbors" command in Junos?
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Can Multicasting be duplicated by broadcasting on a subnet?
Is there any functional difference between:
A) Broadcasting to a range of addresses
B) Putting the range of addresses into a subnet and broadcasting to that subnet
Would it matter if there was a ...
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Weird packet lost. Looking for some input
Like me start by saying I'm not an network expert but this situation got me scratching my head and you guys might be able to help.
The infrastructure is 4 switches (Dell 2848). 2 For the LAN and 2 ...
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Understanding IP multicast in linux [closed]
My ultimate goal is to setup IGMP snooping on a linux machine using netfilter hooks. This is for exploratory purposes to understand IGMP protocol.
The topology we are using is as follows:
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Using IGMP but Multicast still Flooding
Im new here.
I want to ask about the multicast,
The first case is, I have switch HP 2530 24 port with 24 10/100 and 2 100/1000 NIC, And i have servers with bandwidth video multicast around 120-...
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Why we use 224 as multicast address in many protocols?
I see in many protocols we use 224 multicast address as like eigrp uses 224.0.0.10 ospf uses 224.0.0.5 224.0.0.6
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Multicast routing on Huawei Quidway 5300 Switches
I have been testing a scenario which involves multicast routing for multicast traffic the scenario is pretty simple.
I have two L3 switches with OSPF running in between them, two computers are ...
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IGMP and multicast forwarding
So my question is, will using IGMP alone(without IGMP snooping, PIM...etc) making router forwarding multicast traffic?
I'm working on a buggy switch, but I don't know about networking too, so I'm ...
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Cisco: multicast unregistred forwarding on ME3400EG-2CS-A access switch
I am connected to the Internet through an Cisco ME3400EG-2CS-A access switch, routing enabled.
Gi0/1 and Gi0/2 are configured as a SVI (VLAN1) and on that ports I attached two pfSense firewalls with ...
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Network flooded with ICMPv6 Multicast Listener Report Packets
I recently noticed that 3 out of 4 Unifi APs kept reaching 100% CPU usage. When I jumped onto the networks and took a Wireshark capture I noticed 1000s of these packets being sent in just a matter of ...
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redundant vpn to remote location with redundant links
I have this situation:
Remote location with 6 devices collecting data and each connected to two VPN routers. Bonding is set up for those computers and data is sent to multicast address. Each VPN ...
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STB generate IGMP Leave without reason
In my network STB generates IGMP Leave (in STB logs "End of Stream") without any reason or there is something what I don't understand.
There is one exeption STB directly connected to PIM (ASR920) ...
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Multicast between VLANs
I've following scenario
Upper computer on VLAN 10 is sending some multicast messages and lower computer on VLAN 10 sends IGMP join periodically.
Lets say MC address is 224.1.1.1
Now, computer on ...
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Translate between multicast addresses
I have an application with a bug that does not recognize a certain multicast address as valid. It's an address used by another system i don't have control over, and these two systems communicate via ...
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Command “ip nhrp map multicast dynamic” is not being saved into the configuration
For some reason, my Cisco router is not saving the command "ip nhrp map multicast dynamic". The command is recognized but not being saved to the configuration. I am not receiving any errors. Any ...
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Should igmp table lookup misses flood to all ports?
With igmp snooping, upon receiving a multicast packet it looks up the table and decides which ports to forward the packet. What I'm wondering is, if there is not an entry in the table for that ...
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Is multicast on the public internet possible? And if yes: How?
Is it possible to use multicast on the public internet? If yes: How? Are special IP addresses required and where do you get them from?
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Multicast summarization
I was wondering, does it make any sense to summarize(supernet) multicast IPv4 addresses ? Can anyone please explain why yes, or no ?
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Question Regarding IGMPv3 behaviour: Multicast Router appears to send Membership Report?
I'm new to how IGMP works. Recently, I was looking at a packet capture:
I see that 172.18.1.3 sends a membership query to the all hosts address, leading me to assume that 172.18.1.3 is a multicast ...
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Rationale for EXCLUDE mode in mutlicast IGMPv3 / MLDv2
Both IGMPv3 and MLDv2 have an include and an exclude mode, where a multicast listener can specify to either listen only for packets from some list of source addresses (include) or only for packets ...
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IGMP snooping across VLANs
Set up:
Core switch: C1
C1 is an L3 switch--there is no router
Access switches: A1, A2, A3
VLANs: V1, V2
Hosts: H11, H12, H13, H21, H22, etc.
Connections:
C1 connects to A1, A2, A3
A1, A2, A3 each ...
