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ichi_357875
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May 30, 2018

Four Values of Multicast

v.12.1.3 BIG-IPi 4600 [GUI] System> General> Multicast Four values (1) Route Lookup Timeout (2) Maximum Pending Routes (3) Maximum Pending Packets (4) Maximum Multicast Rate What do the above mean in each case?

 

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  • Simon_Blakely's avatar
    Simon_Blakely
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    May 30, 2018

    Look at mgmt/tm/net/multicast-globals for an explanation of each option.

     

    From V12.0.0, Multicast Routing is available, when enabled through the Advanced Routing module and Zebos.

     

    AskF5 Home / Knowledge Center / BIG-IP LTM / BIG-IP TMOS: Routing Administration / Dynamic Routing

     

    The Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) protocol (which is available with licensed ZebOS® dynamic routing on the BIG-IP® system) comprises a group of carrier-class multicast routing protocols for the distribution of data. Within this group, the BIG-IP system supports the PIM Dense Mode (PIM-DM) protocol, which provides dense multicast routing, where it uses shortest-path trees by flooding IPv4 or IPv6 multicast traffic throughout the domain and pruning those branches without receivers.