Dell PowerConnect M6348 User's Guide - Page 666

Multicast Listener Discovery Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) protocol enables IPv6 routers to discover the presence of multicast listeners, the nodes who wish to receive the multicast data packets, on its directly-attached interfaces. The protocol specifically discovers which multicast addresses are of interest to its neighboring nodes and provides this information to the active multicast routing protocol that makes decisions on the flow of multicast data packets. The Multicast router sends General Queries periodically to request multicast address listeners information from systems on an attached network. These queries are used to build and refresh the multicast address listener state on attached networks. Multicast listeners respond to these queries by reporting their multicast addresses listener state and their desired set of sources with Current-State Multicast address Records in the MLD2 Membership Reports. The Multicast router also processes unsolicited Filter-Mode-Change records and Source-List-Change Records from systems that want to indicate interest in receiving or not receiving traffic from particular sources. The FASTPATH implementation of MLD v2 supports the multicast router portion of the protocol (i.e., not the listener portion). It is backward-compatible with MLD v1. MLD Global Configuration Use the MLD Global Configuration page to administratively enable and disable the MLD service. To display the page, click IPv6 Multicast > MLD > Global Configuration in the tree view. Figure 12-9. MLD Global Configuration 664 Configuring IP Multicast