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Multicast Features

Multicast Features are supported on platforms: c e s

Multicast is supported on the E-Series ExaScale platform with FTOS 8.1.1.0 and later.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• Enable IP Multicast on page 679

• Multicast with ECMP on page 680

• Implementation Information on page 681

• Multicast Policies on page 681

• Multicast Traceroute on page 690

• Multicast Quality of Service on page 691

• Optimize the E-Series for Multicast Traffic on page 691

• Tune the Central Scheduler for Multicast on page 692

FTOS supports the following multicast protocols:

• PIM Sparse-Mode on page 771

• PIM Dense-Mode on page 763

• PIM Source-Specific Mode on page 793

• Internet Group Management Protocol on page 419

• Multicast Listener Discovery on page 621

• Multicast Source Discovery Protocol on page 631

Implementation Information

• Multicast is not supported on secondary IP addresses.

Enable IP Multicast

Enable IP Multicast is supported on platforms c e s