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Enabling IPv6 PIM-SM
The SSM model is implemented based on some subsets of IPv6 PIM-SM. Therefore, a router is IPv6
PIM-SSM capable after you enable IPv6 PIM-SM on it.
When deploying an IPv6 PIM-SM domain, you are recommended to enable IPv6 PIM-SM on all
non-border interfaces of routers.
Follow these steps to enable IPv6 PIM-SSM:
To do...
Use the command...
Remarks
Enter system view
system-view
—
Enable IPv6 multicast routing
multicast ipv6 routing-enable
Required
Disable by default
Enter interface view
interface interface-type
interface-number
—
Enable IPv6 PIM-SM
pim ipv6 sm
Required
Disabled by default
All the interfaces of the same device must work in the same IPv6 PIM mode.
For details about the
multicast ipv6 routing-enable
command, see
IPv6 Multicast Routing and
Forwarding Commands
in the
IP Multicast Volume
.
Configuring the IPv6 SSM Group Range
As for whether the information from an IPv6 multicast source is delivered to the receivers based on the
IPv6 PIM-SSM model or the IPv6 PIM-SM model, this depends on whether the group address in the (S,
G) channel subscribed by the receivers falls in the IPv6 SSM group range. All IPv6 PIM-SM-enabled
interfaces assume that IPv6 multicast groups within this address range are using the IPv6 SSM model.
Perform the following configuration on all routers in the IPv6 PIM-SM domain.
Follow these steps to configure the IPv6 SSM group range:
To do...
Use the command...
Remarks
Enter system view
system-view
—
Enter IPv6 PIM view
pim ipv6
—
Configure the IPv6 SSM group
range
ssm-policy acl6-number
Optional
FF3x::/32 by default, here “x”
refers to any legal group scope.