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Multicast Listening Discovery
(MLD)
Release 02.6.00 adds support for MLD Snooping
(MLDv1 and MLDv2) on Brocade BigIron RX devices
running IPv6.
Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter: “Configuring IPv6
Multicast Features”
Section: “Multicast
Listener Discovery and
source specific multicast
protocols (MLDv2)”
IGMPv3 and IGMP Snooping In Release 02.6.00 of the Multi-Service IronWare
software, creating an IGMP static-group allows the
BigIron RX switch having L2 interfaces configured
with snooping to pull traffic from upstream sources
using IGMP joins. When using the uplink option, you
avoid burning a dedicated port. This is supported
for IGMP v2 and v3.
Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter: “Configuring IP
Multicast Protocols”
Section: “IGMP v3”
IGMP v3 Static Client In Release 02.6.00 of the Multi-Service IronWare
software, creating an IGMP static-group allows the
BigIron RXswitch having L2 interfaces configured
with snooping to pull traffic from upstream sources
using IGMP joins. When using the uplink option, you
avoid burning a dedicated port. This is supported
for IGMP v2 and v3.
Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter: “Configuring IP
Multicast Protocols”
Section: “Creating a static
IGMP group”
IGMP v3 Fast Leave and
Tracking
In Release 02.6.00 of the Multi-Service IronWare
software, you can configure a device running IGMP
Snooping to immediately remove a VLAN from the IP
multicast group when it detects a fast leave
message on a specified VLAN.
Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter: “Configuring IP
Multicast Protocols”
Section:“Enabling
membership tracking and
fast leave”
Static Route ARP Validate
Next Hop
Beginning with release 02.6.00, you can configure
the BigIron RX to perform multicast validation
checks on the destination MAC address, the sender
and target IP addresses, and the source MAC
address.
Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter: “Configuring IP
Multicast Protocols”
Section: “Next hop
validation check”
IGMP Proxy per VLAN or
instance
Introduced in version 02.6.00 of the Multi-Service
IronWare software, multicast traffic can be reduced
by configuring an BigIron RX switch to issue IGMP
host messages on behalf of hosts that the
configured router discovers through standard PIM
interfaces. The router is then able to act as a proxy
for the discovered hosts and perform IGMP tasks
upstream of the discovered hosts. Where there are
multiple IGMP hosts downstream, this removes the
need to send multiple messages.
Book: BigIron RX Series
Configuration Guide
Chapter: “Configuring IP
Multicast Traffic
Reduction”
Section: “Multicast traffic
reduction per VLAN”
Layer 4 features
TABLE 9 Summary of enhancements in release 02.6.00 (Continued)
Enhancement Description See page