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Router Dynamic Multicast
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To view and edit PIM settings, go to Router > Dynamic > Multicast. The web-
based manager offers a simplified user interface to configure basic PIM options.
Advanced PIM options can be configured through the CLI. For more information,
see the “router” chapter of the FortiGate CLI Reference.
Figure 114:Basic Multicast options
Enable Multicast
Routing
Select to enable PIM version 2 routing. A firewall policy must be
created on PIM-enabled interfaces to pass encapsulated packets
and decapsulated data between the source and destination,
Add Static RP If required for sparse mode operation, enter the IP address of a
Rendezvous Point (RP) that may be used as the root of a packet
distribution tree for a multicast group. Join messages from the
multicast group are sent to the RP, and data from the source is
sent to the RP.
If an RP for the specified IP’s multicast group is already known to
the Boot Strap Router (BSR), the RP known to the BSR is used
and the static RP address that you specify is ignored.
Apply Select to save the specified static RP addresses.
Create New Select to create a new multicast entry for an interface.
This will allow you to fine-tune PIM operation on a specific
FortiGate interface or override the global PIM settings on a
particular interface. See “Overriding the multicast settings on an
interface” on page 206.
Interface The names of FortiGate interfaces having specific PIM settings.
Mode The mode of PIM operation (Sparse or Dense) on that interface.
Status The status of parse-mode RP candidacy on the interface.
To enable or disable RP candidacy on an interface, select the Edit
icon in the row that corresponds to the interface.
Priority The priority number assigned to RP candidacy on that interface.
Only available when RP candidacy is enabled.
DR Priority The priority number assigned to Designated Router (DR)
candidacy on the interface. Only available when sparse mode is
enabled.
Delete and Edit icons Select to delete or edit the PIM settings on the interface.
Add Static RP
Edit
Delete