PIM-SM Configuration
PIM-SM is a soft-state protocol. The required steps to configure PIM-SM are the following:
• Enable IP multicast on each PIM router (see Enabling IP Multicast Routing)
• Enable PIM-SM on the desired interfaces (see Enable PIM-SM on an Interface)
• Configure the RP statically (see Configuring Rendezvous Point Statically or dynamically (see Configure Rendezvous Point Dynamically Using Bootstrap Router Method) depending on which method you use)
All multicast group states are dynamically maintained as the result of IGMP Report/Leave and PIM Join/Prune messages.
This section provides the steps to configure the PIM-SM feature. Configuration steps and examples are used for two relevant scenarios.
Topology
The following figure displays the network topology used in these examples.
Figure 3-1: PIM-SM Topology
Last modified date: 07/14/2023