Deployment Guide
Figure 124. PIM-Sparse Mode Support on VLT
On each VLAN where the VLT peer nodes act as the rst hop or last hop routers, one of the VLT peer nodes is elected as the PIM
designated router. If you congured IGMP snooping along with PIM on the VLT VLANs, you must congure VLTi as the static multicast
router port on both VLT peer switches. This ensures that for rst hop routers, the packets from the source are redirected to the designated
router (DR) if they are incorrectly hashed. In addition to being rst-hop or last -hop routers, the peer node can also act as an intermediate
router.
The VLT peer nodes can also act as normal PIM routers on Layer 3 ports and on VLANS that do not have any VLT port members. In
addition to being rst-hop or last-hop routers, the peer node can also act as an intermediate router.
To route trac to and from the multicast source and receiver that are connected to VLT ports, enable PIM-Sparse mode on the VLANs to
which the VLT ports belong using the ip pim sparse-mode command. If IGMP Snooping is congured on these VLANs, the VLTi must
be congured as a static multicast router port on both VLT peers.
To verify the PIM neighbors on the VLT VLAN and on the multicast port, use the show ip pim neighbor, show ip igmp
snooping mrouter
, and show running config commands.
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