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M4300 Intelligent Edge Series Fully Managed Stackable Switches
Configure Multicast Routing User Manual453
Configure IPv6 PIM SSM
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
PIM protocol. A range of multicast addresses, currently 232.0.0.0/8 in IPv4 and FF3x::/32 in
IPv6, is reserved for SSM.
To configure the IPv6 PIM SSM 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 admin as the user name, enter your local device password,
and click the Login
button.
The first time that you log in, no password is required. However, you then must specify a
local device password to use each subsequent time that you log in.
The System Information page displays.
4. Select Routing> IPv6 Multicast > IPv6 PIM > SSM Configuration.
5. In the SSM Group
Address field, enter the source-specific multicast group IP address.
6. In the SSM Group Mask field, enter the source-specific multicast group IP address
mask.
7. Click the Add button.
The source-specific group is added.