Stormshield SN series - Static Multicast Routing; Actions on Multicast Routing Policy Rules; New Rule

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STATIC MULTICAST ROUTING

Multicast routing allows distributing network traffic from one source to several destinations. The

source and destinations will then be placed in a "multicast group".

This type of routing is used for teleseminar applications (no interaction with recipients),

teleconferences (each member of the group can be a traffic source), routing table distribution for

the RIPv2 protocol, remote network booting (BOOTP protocol), etc.

IMPORTANT

Static multicast routing has priority over all other types of routing (static routing, dynamic

routing, routing in a bridge, policy-based routing, etc).

Enable multicast

routing

If this option is selected, you will be enabling the static multicast routing service and

the associated policy if it contains enabled rules.

Actions on multicast routing policy rules

The table allows you to define the rules in the multicast routing policy to be applied on the

firewall. High- priority rules are placed on top. The firewall executes rules in their order of

appearance in the list (rule no. 1, 2 and so on) and stops as soon as it reaches a rule that

matches the traffic that it processes.

Add This button allows inserting a line after a selected line; a routing rule creation wizard will then

open automatically.

Delete Deletes the selected line.

Move up Places the selected line before the line just above it.

Move down Places the selected line after the line just below it.

Cut Allows you to cut a routing rule in order to move it.

Copy Allows you to copy a routing rule in order to duplicate it.

Paste Allows you to duplicate a routing rule after having copied it.

New rule

Step 1: selecting the multicast group and the source interface

Select the multicast object containing allowed multicast IP addresses as well as the multicast

traffic source (source interface) for this routing rule.

The multicast group must contain a host, network, IP address range or group containing

exclusively multicast IP addresses (within the range 224.0.0.0 - 239.255.255.255 inclusive).

Step 2: selecting the destination interfaces

Click on Add to target the destination of the traffic affected by the multicast routing rule. You can

add as many destination interfaces as necessary in the rule.

NOTE

A multicast packet matching the rule (packet originating from an address contained in the

multicast group and being presented by one of the declared source interfaces) will be sent

to all destination interfaces.

SNS - USER CONFIGURATION MANUAL V.3

STATIC MULTICAST ROUTING

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