Lucent Technologies 6000 User Manual

MAX 6000/3000 Network Configuration Guide

 10-5

The examples in this section show how to configure MBONE routers on the Ethernet and on a 
WAN. They also show how to configure multicast clients.

Figure 10-1 shows a local multicast router on one of the MAX unit’s Ethernet interfaces, and 
dial-in multicast clients.

Heartbeat monitoring is an optional feature. You can operate multicast forwarding 

without it if you prefer.

As an example of this type of multicast configuration, the following procedure specifies the 
MBONE interface as the Ethernet port, and uses the heartbeat group address of 224.1.1.1:

Open Ethernet > Mod Config > Multicast and set Forwarding to enable multicast 
forwarding. Leave the default values for the Mbone Profile, Client, and Rate Limit 
parameters:

Ethernet

Mod Config

Multicast...

Forwarding=Yes

Membership Timeout=60

Mbone Profile=

Client=No

Rate Limit=5 

Set the HeartBeat Addr and Heartbeat UDP parameters to specify a heartbeat group 
address and UDP port for monitoring heartbeat packets. For example:

Threshold for generating an 
alarm

Heartbeat Alarm Threshold specifies a number. If the number 
of monitored packets falls below this number, the MAX sends 
the SNMP alarm trap.