Cisco Cisco ASR 5000
BMSC Profile Configuration Mode Commands
gmb user-data ▀
Command Line Interface Reference, StarOS Release 18 ▄
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Usage
Use this command to configure user data mode and other parameters in the BMSC profile for user data of
MBMS user service.
GGSN can receive multicast data from BMSC in one of two modes - Multicast or Unicast. In Unicast mode,
BM-SC tunnels the multicast data to the GGSN in an IP-in-IP tunnel instead of direct multicast. This
command with the
MBMS user service.
GGSN can receive multicast data from BMSC in one of two modes - Multicast or Unicast. In Unicast mode,
BM-SC tunnels the multicast data to the GGSN in an IP-in-IP tunnel instead of direct multicast. This
command with the
mode-preference
keyword configures the GGSN's preferred mode for receiving
multicast data.
Important:
Both GGSN and BMSC must support the Unicast mode of multicast data transfer. If any GGSN or
BMSC does not support Multicast mode, BMSC will transfer multicast data using Unicast mode only.
Use the
unicast-self-address
keyword to configure the GGSN's IP address which the BMSC should use
as the outer destination address for the IP-in-IP tunnel to send multicast data, if the selected user data mode to
receive multicast data is Unicast.
receive multicast data is Unicast.
Example
The following command sets the MBMS data transfer mode to unicast:
default gmb user-data mode-preference