by Maher Haddad | Jun 9, 2022 | Multicast v6
As we already know from the networking basics, the main job of the router is to route packets, that means when it receives an IP packet it will look to the layer 3 destination address then check its routing table to see what the next hop should be to forward the IP...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 8, 2022 | Multicast v6
There are some additional settings that you can use with IGMP-Proxy. Let me show you some: On the upstream interface, you can use the Alternative Subnets. What does this do exactly. Well, let’s imagine that the VLC server is not directly connected to this interface...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 8, 2022 | Multicast v6
I am still on the same LAB scenario. I have removed the old configuration using PIM and IGMP, so I only have addresses set on the MikroTik Router. As I do have 1 router, why not to use IGMP-Proxy which is much simpler and easy to be configured. Based on what we have...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 8, 2022 | Multicast v6
IGMP-Proxy is another way to implement multicast on MikroTik Routers. It also forwards IGMP frames and it used when we do not want to implement PIM protocol. IGMP-Proxy has the following features: It is simple compared to PIM when it comes to multicast configuration....
by Maher Haddad | Jun 8, 2022 | Multicast v6
We are still on the same LAB scenario; I haven’t done any change. I need now to choose using IGMPv2 instead of IGMPv1. That’s something we only need to do on the MikroTik router as the following: [mepr-show rules=”319″ unauth=”message”] So the...
by Maher Haddad | Jun 8, 2022 | Multicast v6
In the last chapter, we have seen that once a device stops listening to the multicast group address, he will not report this to the router who in turn will keep flowing the multicast stream until the timer on his IGMP Group table is expired. In another term, IGMPv1...
