by Maher Haddad | Jun 9, 2022 | Multicast v6
We have the above LAB. All IP addresses are set, also the default route is sent on the Windows PC of the VLC Streaming Server. I will go to the MikroTik Switch and create a bridge, then put Ether1/Ether2/Ether3 in that bridge. This is needed because the ports on...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 9, 2022 | Multicast v6
We have reached to the last chapter of this course, and in this chapter I will explain to you about IGMP Snooping which is implemented on the Layer 2 MikroTik switches. Up to now, we didn’t see any switch in any of the previous chapters, but in a real network we will...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 9, 2022 | Multicast v6
We are still on the same LAB scenario as per the previous one. Everything is the same, but I have wiped all configuration that we have done on multicast. What I would like to do is to make R1 as BSR and also the RP candidate. Then R2 will receive the BSR message from...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 9, 2022 | Multicast v6
BSR (Bootstrap) is a protocol that is used to automatically find the RP (Rendezvous Point) in out multicast network. BSR is an open standard protocol, that means it works on MikroTik and on any other vendor that supports multicast. Cisco has a similar protocol which...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 9, 2022 | Multicast v6
In this LAB, I am going to make R1 to be the RP. Then I will see if the VLC client will receive the multicast traffic from the VLC streaming server. All IP addresses are set as per the graph on the routers and on the PC. That’s the only configuration that I have now....
by Maher Haddad | Jun 9, 2022 | Multicast v6
With PIM-SM configured on the MikroTik router, the router will only forward the multicast traffic when another router requests it. On Cisco there is PIM-DM (Dense mode) where the multicast is flooded once received; however, this mode is not available on MikroTik so...
