Alcatel-Lucent 6850-48 Network Guide

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IPMV Packet Flows
Configuring IP Multicast VLAN
page 43-6
OmniSwitch AOS Release 6 Network Configuration Guide
September 2009
The paths taken by the packets are described in the following subsections:
Untagged Control Packets Ingressing on the Receiver Port
The following steps describe the path taken by untagged control packets ingressing on the receiver port:
Untagged IPMS join reports for the multicast group G1 are sent to the receiver port.
The IPMS reports sent to the CPU of the Ethernet switch are single-tagged with the default SVLAN tag 
(s-tag).
IPMS overwrites the SVLAN tag with the IPMV tag after IPMV table lookup.
A single IPMS report, single-tagged with IPMV, is sent to the multicast server for group G1.
The single multicast data packet, single-tagged with IPMV, is generated by the multicast server for 
group G1.
The generated multicast data packets are flooded on the receiver port. These data packets are untagged.
C-Tag Translation Rule in the VLAN Stacking Mode
The following steps describe how the c-tag translation rule works in the VLAN Stacking mode:
The IPMS join reports for multicast group G1, which are single-tagged with the CVLAN tag (c-tag)
 
are 
sent to the receiver port. 
SVLAN tags are attached before the CVLAN tags in all the IPMS reports going to the CPU of the 
Ethernet switch.
IPMS overwrites the SVLAN tags with the IPMV tags after IPMV table lookup for the inner c-tag.
A single IPMS double-tagged report with an IPMV outer tag and a CVLAN inner tag is sent to the 
multicast server for group G1.
The single multicast double-tagged data packets with an IPMV outer tag and a CVLAN inner tag are 
generated by the multicast server for group G1.
The VLAN Stacking egress logic removes the IPMV outer tag. The generated multicast data packets 
flooded on the receiver port are single-tagged with CVLAN.
Single-Tagged Control Packets (with CVLAN) Ingressing on the Receiver Port in 
the VLAN Stacking Double-Tag Mode
The following steps describe the path taken by single-tagged control packets ingressing on the receiver 
port in the VLAN Stacking double-tag mode:
The IPMS join reports for multicast group G1, single-tagged with the CVLAN tag (c-tag), are sent to 
the receiver.
 
SVLAN tags are attached after the CVLAN tags in all the IPMS reports going to the CPU of the Ether-
net switch.
IPMS overwrites the SVLAN tags with the IPMV tags after IPMV table lookup for the inner c-tag.
A single IPMS double-tagged report with an IPMV outer tag and a CVLAN inner tag is sent to the 
multicast server for group G1.