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across the tunnel through unicast routers. Then, Router B strips off the unicast IPv6 header and continues
to forward the IPv6 multicast data down toward the receivers.
Configuration task list
Task
Remarks
Enabling IPv6 multicast routing
Required.
Configuring IPv6 multicast
routing and forwarding
Configuring an IPv6 multicast routing policy
Optional.
Configuring an IPv6 multicast forwarding range
Optional.
Configuring the IPv6 multicast forwarding table size
Optional.
Enabling IPv6 multicast routing
Before you configure any Layer 3 IPv6 multicast functionality, you must enable IPv6 multicast routing.
To enable IPv6 multicast routing:
Step Command
Remarks
1.
Enter system view.
system-view
N/A
2.
Enable IPv6 multicast routing.
multicast ipv6 routing-enable
Disabled by default.
Configuring IPv6 multicast routing and forwarding
This section describes how to configure IPv6 multicast routing and forwarding.
Configuration prerequisites
Before you configure IPv6 multicast routing and forwarding, complete the following tasks:
•
Enable IPv6 forwarding and configure an IPv6 unicast routing protocol so that all devices in the
domain are interoperable at the network layer.
•
Configure IPv6 PIM-DM or IPv6 PIM-SM.
•
Determine the minimum hop limit value required for an IPv6 multicast packet to be forwarded.
•
Determine the maximum number of downstream nodes for a single entry in the IPv6 multicast
forwarding table.
•
Determine the maximum number of entries in the IPv6 multicast forwarding table.
Configuring an IPv6 multicast routing policy
You can configure the router to select the RPF route based on the longest prefix match principle. For more
information about RPF route selection, see "
By configuring per-source or per-source-and-group load splitting, you can optimize the traffic delivery
when multiple IPv6 multicast data streams are handled.
To configure an IPv6 multicast routing policy: