User manual ZYXEL ES-4124

[. . . ] ES-4124 Intelligent Layer 3+ Switch User's Guide Version 3. 70 8/2006 ES-4124 User's Guide Copyright Copyright © 2006 by ZyXEL Communications Corporation. The contents of this publication may not be reproduced in any part or as a whole, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, translated into any language, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, photocopying, manual, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of ZyXEL Communications Corporation. Published by ZyXEL Communications Corporation. All rights reserved. Disclaimer ZyXEL does not assume any liability arising out of the application or use of any products, or software described herein. [. . . ] If you want to add a single multicast IP address, enter it in both the Start Address and End Address fields. Click Add to save the profile to the switch's run-time memory. The switch loses these changes if it is turned off or loses power, so use the Save link on the top navigation panel to save your changes to the non-volatile memory when you are done configuring. Click Clear to clear the fields to the factory defaults. This field displays the descriptive name of the profile. This field displays the start of the multicast address range. This field displays the end of the multicast address range. Start Address End Address Add Clear Profile Name Start Address End Address Chapter 22 Multicast 163 ES-4124 User's Guide Table 54 Multicast: IGMP Filtering Profile (continued) LABEL Delete DESCRIPTION To delete the profile(s) and all the accompanying rules, select the profile(s) that you want to remove in the Delete Profile column, then click the Delete button. To delete a rule(s) from a profile, select the rule(s) that you want to remove in the Delete Rule column, then click the Delete button. Click Cancel to clear the Delete Profile/Delete Rule check boxes. Cancel 22. 5 MVR Overview Multicast VLAN Registration (MVR) is designed for applications (such as Media-on-Demand (MoD)) that use multicast traffic across an Ethernet ring-based service provider network. MVR allows one single multicast VLAN to be shared among different subscriber VLANs on the network. While isolated in different subscriber VLANs, connected devices can subscribe to and unsubscribe from the multicast stream in the multicast VLAN. This improves bandwidth utilization with reduced multicast traffic in the subscriber VLANs and simplifies multicast group management. You must enable IGMP snooping to use MVR. However, MVR only responds to IGMP join and leave control messages from multicast groups that are configured under MVR. Join and leave reports from other multicast groups are managed by IGMP snooping. The following figure shows a network example. The subscriber VLAN (1, 2 and 3) information is hidden from the streaming media server, S. In addition, the multicast VLAN information is only visible to the switch and S. Figure 71 MVR Network Example 22. 5. 1 Types of MVR Ports In MVR, a source port is a port on the switch that can send and receive multicast traffic in a multicast VLAN while a receiver port can only receive multicast traffic. Once configured, the switch maintains a forwarding table that matches the multicast stream to the associated multicast group. 22. 5. 2 MVR Modes You can set your switch to operate in either dynamic or compatible mode. 164 Chapter 22 Multicast ES-4124 User's Guide In dynamic mode, the switch sends IGMP leave and join reports to the other multicast devices (such as multicast routers or servers) in the multicast VLAN. This allows the multicast devices to update the multicast forwarding table to forward or not forward multicast traffic to the receiver ports. In compatible mode, the switch does not send any IGMP reports. In this case, you must manually configure the forwarding settings on the multicast devices in the multicast VLAN. 22. 5. 3 How MVR Works The following figure shows a multicast television example where a subscriber device (such as a computer) in VLAN 1 receives multicast traffic from the streaming media server, S, via the switch. [. . . ] The "borrowed" host ID bit can be either "0" or "1" thus giving two subnets; 192. 168. 1. 0 with mask 255. 255. 255. 128 and 192. 168. 1. 128 with mask 255. 255. 255. 128. Note: In the following charts, shaded/bolded last octet bit values indicate host ID bits "borrowed" to make network ID bits. The number of "borrowed" host ID bits determines the number of subnets you can have. The remaining number of host ID bits (after "borrowing") determines the number of hosts you can have on each subnet. Table 124 Subnet 1 IP/SUBNET MASK IP Address IP Address (Binary) Subnet Mask Subnet Mask (Binary) NETWORK NUMBER 192. 168. 1. [. . . ]