R3303-HP HSR6800 Routers IP Multicast Configuration Guide

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Configuring MLD proxying
This section describes how to configure MLD proxying.
Configuration prerequisites
Before you configure the MLD proxying feature, complete the following tasks:
• Enable IPv6 forwarding and configure an IPv6 unicast routing protocol so that all devices in the
domain are interoperable at the network layer.
• Enable IPv6 multicast routing.
Enabling MLD proxying
You can enable MLD proxying on the interface in the direction toward the root of the multicast forwarding
tree to make the device serve as an MLD proxy.
Configuration guidelines
• Each device can have only one interface serving as the MLD proxy interface.
• You cannot enable MLD on interfaces with MLD proxying enabled. Moreover, only the mld
require-router-alert, mld send-router-alert, and mld version commands can take effect on such
interfaces.
• You cannot enable other IPv6 multicast routing protocols (such as IPv6 PIM-DM or IPv6 PIM-SM) on
interfaces with MLD proxying enabled, or vice versa. However, the source-lifetime, source-policy,
and ssm-policy commands configured in IPv6 PIM view can still take effect.
Configuration procedure
To enable MLD proxying:
Ste
p
Command Remarks
1. Enter system view.
system-view N/A
2. Enter interface view.
interface interface-type
interface-number
N/A
3. Enable the MLD proxying
feature.
mld proxying enable Disabled by default.
Configuring IPv6 multicast forwarding on a downstream
interface
Typically, to avoid duplicate multicast flows, only queriers can forward IPv6 multicast traffic. On MLD
proxy devices, a downstream interfaces must be a querier in order to forward IPv6 multicast traffic to
downstream hosts. If the interface has failed in the querier election, you must manually enable IPv6
multicast forwarding on this interface.
On a shared-media network with more than one MLD proxy devices, you cannot enable IPv6 multicast
forwarding on any other non-querier downstream interface after one of the downstream interfaces of