
Multicasting and Multimedia Overview
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Table 1-1. Packet Migration Between Multicast and Nonmulticast Networks
Router
Receives This
Type of Packet
On This Type
of Interface Forwarding Action and How to Enable
Unicast or
broadcast
Multicast The multicast protocol running on the interface forwards the packet to
a multicast destination address or a list of multicast destination
addresses based on a configured IP traffic filter. (The IP traffic filter
converts the unicast or broadcast packets to multicast.) See
1-1
Figure 1-1.
Multicast Multicast The multicast protocol running on the router forwards the packet on to
either:
• A multicast configured outbound interface, based on the multicast
protocol decisions.
• A nonmulticast, IGMP static configured outbound circuit. In Site
Manager, you must set the IGMP static forwarding entries policy
for
Dynamic to Static
forwarding mode. See Figure 1-2.
Multicast Nonmulticast,
IGMP static
configured
If you set the IGMP static forwarding policy for
Static to Dynamic
forwarding mode, and if multicast protocols are running on the
outbound interfaces, the router forwards multicast packet traffic to a
multicast enabled network. You must also set the IGMP interface
parameter Static Forward Cache Lifetime to a value in accordance
with the particular multicast protocol (DVMRP or MOSPF) that is
running on the outbound interface. See Figure 1-3
.
If you set the IGMP static forwarding policy for
Static
forwarding
mode, the router forwards the multicast traffic to a nonmulticast, static
configured interface. See Figure 1-4.
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