Configuring IGMP Snooping on MikroTik RouterOS

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...

What is IGMP Snooping on MikroTik RouterOS?

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...

What is BSR on MikroTik RouterOS?

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...

Configuring PIM on MikroTik RouterOS

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....

How PIM-SM protocol works?

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...