To configure an egress multicast group policy

Note: An egress multicast group policy cannot be applied to SR NE variants at Release 15.0 R1 and higher.

Steps
 

Choose Policies→Multicast→Egress Multicast Group from the NFM-P main menu. The Egress Multicast Group Policies form opens.


Click Create or select an existing policy and click Properties. The Egress Multicast Group, Global Policy (Create|Edit) form opens.


Configure the parameters as required.


Click on the SAP Common Requirements tab and configure the parameters as required.


Click Select in the Egress Filter panel to choose an egress ACL IP filter policy and click OK. See To configure an ACL IP filter policy for information about configuring an ACL IP filter policies.

Note: The egress ACL IP filter policy that you choose for this egress multicast group must be the same as the egress ACL IP filter policy specified for a member SAP.


Click Select in the Egress Filter IPv6 panel to choose an egress IPv6 filter policy and click OK. See To configure an ACL IPv6 filter policy for information about configuring IPv6 filter policies.


Click Apply to save the policy. Additional buttons appears on the form.


Click Search, select a policy in the list and click Distribute to manually release and distribute the policy locally to devices. See To release and distribute a policy for more information. Policies are also automatically distributed to devices when they are used by resources on the device.

Note: To associate a SAP on the device with an EMG, the access port encapsulation type on the device must be the same as the encapsulation type that you specified in Step 4.


Close the form.

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