Restrictions for IPv6 Multicast
- The PFC and DFCs provide hardware support for the following:
– Completely switched IPv6 multicast flows
– IPv6 PIM-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) (S,G) and (*,G) forwarding
– Multicast RPF check for IPv6 PIM-SM (S,G) traffic using the NetFlow table
– Rate limiting of IPv6 PIM-SM (S,G) traffic that fails the multicast RPF check
– Static IPv6 multicast routes
– SSM Mapping for IPv6 (PIM-SSM)
– IPv6 multicast forwarding information base (MFIB) using the NetFlow table
– IPv6 distributed MFIB (dMFIB) using the NetFlow table
– Link-local and link-global IPv6 multicast scopes
– Egress multicast replication with the ipv6 mfib hardware-switching command
– Ingress interface statistics for multicast routes (egress interface statistics not available)
– RPR and RPR+ redundancy mode (see Chapter 9, “Route Processor Redundancy (RPR)”)
– Ingress and egress PFC QoS (see Chapter 24, “PFC QoS Overview”)
– Input and output Cisco access-control lists (ACLs)
- The PFC and DFCs do not provide hardware support for the following:
– Partially switched IPv6 multicast flows
– Multicast RPF check for PIM-SM (*,G) traffic
– Multicast helper maps
– Site-local multicast scopes
– Manually configured IPv6 over IPv4 tunnels
– IPv6 multicast 6to4 tunnels
– IPv6 multicast automatic tunnels
– IPv6 over GRE tunnels
– IPv6-in-IPv6 PIM register tunnels
– IPv6 multicast basic ISATAP tunnels
– ISATAP tunnels with embedded 6to4 tunnels
Verifying the IPv6 Multicast Layer 3 Configuration
Verifying MFIB Clients
This example shows the complete output of the show ipv6 mrib client command:
Router# show ipv6 mrib client
Displaying the Switching Capability
This example displays the complete output of the show platform software ipv6-multicast capability command:
Router# show platform software ipv6-multicast capability
Verifying the (S,G) Forwarding Capability
This example shows how to verify the (S,G) forwarding:
Router# show platform software ipv6-multicast capability | include (S,G)
(S,G) forwarding for IPv6 supported using Netflow
Verifying the (*,G) Forwarding Capability
This example shows how to verify the (*,G) forwarding:
Router# show platform software ipv6-multicast capability | include (\*,G)
(*,G) bridging for IPv6 is supported using FIB
Verifying the Subnet Entry Support Status
This example shows how to verify the subnet entry support status:
Router# show platform software ipv6-multicast capability | include entries
Directly-connected entries for IPv6 is supported using ACL-TCAM.
Verifying the Current Replication Mode
This example shows how to verify the current replication mode:
Router# show platform software ipv6-multicast capability | include Current
Current System HW Replication Mode : Ingress
Note Enter the no ipv6 mfib hardware-switching replication-mode ingress command to enable replication mode auto-detection.
Displaying the Replication Mode Auto-Detection Status
This example shows how to display the replication mode auto-detection status:
Router# show platform software ipv6-multicast capability | include detection
Auto-detection of Replication Mode : ON
Displaying the Replication Mode Capabilities
This example shows how to display the replication mode capabilities of the installed modules:
Router# show platform software ipv6-multicast capability | begin ^Slot
Slot Replication-Capability Replication-Mode
Displaying Subnet Entries
This example shows how to display subnet entries:
Router# show platform software ipv6-multicast connected
IPv6 Multicast Subnet entries
Flags : H - Installed in ACL-TCAM
X - Not installed in ACL-TCAM due to
Note In this example, there are subnet entries for VLAN 10 and VLAN 20.
Displaying the IPv6 Multicast Summary
This example shows how to display the IPv6 multicast summary:
Router# show platform software ipv6-multicast summary
IPv6 Multicast Netflow SC summary on Slot[1]:
Shortcut Type Shortcut count
---------------------------+--------------
IPv6 Multicast FIB SC summary on Slot[1]:
Shortcut Type Shortcut count
---------------------------+--------------
IPv6 Multicast Netflow SC summary on Slot[6]:
Shortcut Type Shortcut count
---------------------------+--------------
IPv6 Multicast FIB SC summary on Slot[6]:
Shortcut Type Shortcut count
---------------------------+--------------
Displaying the NetFlow Hardware Forwarding Count
This example shows how to display the NetFlow hardware forwarding count:
Router# show platform software ipv6-multicast summary
IPv6 Multicast Netflow SC summary on Slot[1]:
Shortcut Type Shortcut count
---------------------------+--------------
IPv6 Multicast Netflow SC summary on Slot[6]:
Shortcut Type Shortcut count
---------------------------+--------------
Note The NetFlow (*, G) count is always zero because PIM-SM (*,G) forwarding is supported in software on the RP.
Displaying the FIB Hardware Bridging and Drop Counts
This example shows how to display the FIB hardware bridging and drop hardware counts:
Router# show platform software ipv6-multicast summary | begin FIB
IPv6 Multicast FIB SC summary on Slot[1]:
Shortcut Type Shortcut count
---------------------------+--------------
IPv6 Multicast FIB SC summary on Slot[6]:
Shortcut Type Shortcut count
---------------------------+--------------
Note ● The (*, G/128) value is a hardware bridge entry count.
- The (*, G/m) value is a hardware bridge/drop entry count.
Displaying the Shared and Well-Known Hardware Adjacency Counters
The show platform software ipv6-multicast shared-adjacencies command displays the shared and well-known hardware adjacency counters used for IPv6 multicast by entries in FIB and ACL-TCAM.
Router# show platform software ipv6-multicast shared-adjacencies
Shared IPv6 Mcast Adjacencies Index Packets Bytes
----------------------------- ------ ------------- ------------------
Subnet bridge adjacency 0x7F802 0 0
Control bridge adjacency 0x7 0 0
StarG_M bridge adjacency 0x8 0 0
S_G bridge adjacency 0x9 0 0
Default drop adjacency 0xA 0 0
StarG (spt == INF) adjacency 0xB 0 0
StarG (spt != INF) adjacency 0xC 0 0
Shared IPv6 Mcast Adjacencies Index Packets Bytes
----------------------------- ------ ------------- ------------------
Subnet bridge adjacency 0x7F802 0 0
Control bridge adjacency 0x7 0 0
StarG_M bridge adjacency 0x8 0 0
S_G bridge adjacency 0x9 0 0
Default drop adjacency 0xA 28237 3146058
StarG (spt == INF) adjacency 0xB 0 0
StarG (spt != INF) adjacency 0xC 0 0
Tip For additional information about Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches (including configuration examples and troubleshooting information), see the documents listed on this page:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps708/tsd_products_support_series_home.html
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