STANDARD Revision 1.0 C4® CMTS Release 8.3 User Guide
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25. Multicast .............................................................................................................................................. 776
Overview ........................................................................................................................................................... 776
IP Multicast ....................................................................................................................................................... 777
What is IP Multicast? ............................................................................................................................... 777
Multicast Traffic ................................................................................................................................................ 777
MDF .......................................................................................................................................................... 777
Multicast Routing ..................................................................................................................................... 778
Valid Multicast Address Ranges ............................................................................................................... 778
IGMP Implementation ...................................................................................................................................... 779
Source-Specific Multicast ......................................................................................................................... 779
Multicast Routing Configurations ..................................................................................................................... 780
ASM/SSM Configurations ......................................................................................................................... 781
IGMP Visibility .......................................................................................................................................... 783
Static IGMP Joins ...................................................................................................................................... 787
Forced Downstream Replication of Multicast Traffic ....................................................................................... 789
Operational Guidelines ..................................................................................................................................... 790
Effects of Enabling MDF on the MAC Domain .................................................................................................. 791
CLI Commands .................................................................................................................................................. 792
26. Connection Admission Control .............................................................................................................. 796
Overview ........................................................................................................................................................... 796
General CAC Description ................................................................................................................................... 797
Reserved Bandwidth ................................................................................................................................ 797
PacketCable CAC Description ............................................................................................................................ 797
Multicast CAC Description ................................................................................................................................ 798
Guidelines for CAC Thresholds in Non-converged System ...................................................................... 799
Guidelines for CAC Thresholds in Converged System .............................................................................. 800
Configuring CAC ................................................................................................................................................ 800