I have a layer 2 network configure for multicast traffic.
1. I have two switches --3750. Switch1 is the core switch and switch 2 is trunked from switch 1.
2. the multicast server is connected to switch 2 via and access port in a vlan...Lets say vlan 5
3. switch 1(core) has various vlans configured on it, to include vlan 5. The multicast server has an IP in the vlan 5 network and the port on switch 2 is in vlan 5. Now, because these switches are igmp enabled no need to put PiM protocol. I just enabled Multicast-Routing on both.
4. I have a receiver who is in vlan 5 and is able to View the multicast traffic on either switch as long as its assigned to vlan 5.
AT THIS POINT ALL IS WELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*******BEFORE I ADD ANYTHING ELSE NOTE THAT THIS WAS CONFIGURED AS ROUTER ON A STICK WITH SUBINF ON THE ROUTER WITH VLAN 5*****************WORKED WELL BUT IM TRYING TO REMOVE ALL LAYER 2 FUNCTION OFF THE ROUTER, IF POSSIBLE.
Problem:
With the same setup I want to add the router to the multicast tree so that the ports on the router will participate and I can add a switch to the router and a receiver can access the multicast traffic.
1. on switch 1 added ip routing and made one of the ports a routed port to the router. so switch port gi1/0/24 and router port gi0/0 are now in the same /29 network.
2. I have enabled PIM Dense-mode on both ports: gi1/0/24 and Rtr gi0/0. I have also added ip igmp join for my multicast address.
3. On the router I have enabled multicast-routing. I have also added ip igmp join for my multicast address on gi0/0
4. I repeated the same on gi0/1: PIM dense, ip igmp join, multicast-routing, and Ipaddr to another network. this is where I want to add another switch. but at the moment I have a test laptop running VLC to receive the traffic to no avail.
Im not even sure if this is possible but I wanted to reach out to see if this is even possible since the Mserver is on a switch this time as oppose to have a multicast server on the router casting down to the switches.
I also tried adding ip igmp snooping quirer on the router .. still a no go..
Any advice!!!!! thanks