Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6800 Series - IPMV Packet Flows; VLAN Stacking Mode

Configuring IP Multicast VLAN IPMV Packet Flows
OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000 Network Configuration Guide March 2008 page 33-5
IPMV Packet Flows
This section describes the tagged and untagged packet flows in both the Enterprise and VLAN Stacking
modes. In addition, it also describes the packet flow from the ingress point to the egress point.
VLAN Stacking Mode
The following illustration shows customers A, B, and C formed as a multicast group G1.Three types of
control packets ingress on the receiver port.
Packet Flow in the VLAN Stacking Mode
Customer A
Customer B
Customer C
Legends
Multicast Data Packets
Multicast Control Packets
1
2
3
4
5
6
Core Unicast
and
Multicast Router
Ethernet Switch
Sender port
Receiver port
Receiver port
Receiver port