Configuring PIM
PIM Specifications
OmniSwitch AOS Release 7 Advanced Routing Configuration Guide
March 2011
page 6-3
PIM Specifications
Platforms Supported
OmniSwitch 10K
RFCs Supported
4601—Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode
(PIM-SM) Protocol Specification
5060 - Protocol Independent Multicast MIB
5132 —IP Multicast MIB
3306—Unicast-Prefix-based IPv6 Multicast Addresses
3569—An Overview of Source-Specific Multicast (SSM)
3973—Protocol Independent Multicast-Dense Mode (PIM-
DM)
3376—Internet Group Management Protocol
4601—Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode
(PIM-SM)
5059 - Bootstrap Router (BSR) Mechanism for PIM
5240 - Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Bootstrap
Router MIB
PIM-SM Version Supported
PIM-SMv2
PIM Attributes Supported
Shared trees (also referred to as RP trees), Designated
Routers (DRs), Bootstrap Routers (BSRs), Candidate
Bootstrap Routers (C-BSRs), Rendezvous Points (RPs)
(applicable only for PIM-SM), Candidate Rendezvous
Points (C-RPs)
PIM Timers Supported
C-RP expiry, C-RP holdtime, C-RP advertisement,
Join/Prune, Probe, Register suppression, Hello, Expiry,
Assert, Neighbor liveness
Maximum PIM Interfaces
1K
Maximum Rendezvous Point (RP)
1K
Maximum Bootstrap Routers (BSRs)
1
Multicast Protocols per Interface
1 (PIM and DVMRP cannot be enabled on the same IP
interface)
Valid SSM IPv4 Address Ranges
232.0.0.0 to 232.255.255.255
Valid SSM IPv6 Address Ranges
FF3x::/32