Multicast Routing
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M4300 Series and M4300-96X Fully Managed Switches User Manual
Configure PIM Settings
You can configure PIM settings and view PIM statistics.
Configure the Multicast PIM Global Settings
Protocol-Independent Multicast (PIM) is a standard multicast routing protocol that provides
scalable interdomain multicast routing across the Internet, independent of the mechanisms
provided by any particular unicast routing protocol.
To configure the PIM global settings:
1. Launch a web browser.
2. In the address field of your web browser, enter the IP address of the switch.
The login window opens.
3. Enter the user name and password.
The default admin user name is
admin and the default admin password is blank, that is,
do not enter a password.
4. Click the Login button.
The System Information page displays.
5. Select Routing> Multicast > PIM > Global Configuration.
6. In the Admin Mode field, select the protocol of PIM in the router
.
Possible values are
Disable, PIM-SM, or PIM-DM. The default is
Disable.
7. Click the Apply button.
Your settings are saved.
Configure PIM SSM Settings
While PIM employs a specially configured rendezvous point (RP) router that serves as a
meeting junction for multicast senders and listeners, Protocol-Independent Multicast
Single-Source Multicast (PIM-SSM) does not use an RP. It supports only source route
delivery trees. It is used between routers so that they can track which multicast packets to
forward to each other and to their directly connected LANs. The SSM service model can be
implemented with a strict subset of the PIM protocol mechanisms. Both regular IP multicast
and SSM semantics can coexist on a single router, and both can be implemented using the
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