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Multicast application in vpns, Multicast packet forwarding mechanism – H3C Technologies H3C S12500-X Series Switches User Manual

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Multicast application in VPNs

A PE or MCE device that supports multicast for VPNs does the following operations:

Maintains an independent set of multicast forwarding mechanisms for each VPN, including the
multicast protocols, PIM neighbor information, and multicast routing table. In a VPN, the device

forwards multicast data based on the forwarding table or routing table for that VPN.

Implements the isolation between different VPNs.

The PE device also implements information exchange and data conversion between the public
network and VPN instances.

As shown in

Figure 10

, when a multicast source in VPN A sends a multicast stream to a multicast group,

only the receivers that belong to both the multicast group and VPN A can receive the multicast stream.

The multicast data is multicast both in VPN A and on the public network.