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I am looking to understand how CAPWAP works with multicast routing. Since CAPWAP traffic is tunneled and the IP header is sourced from APs destined to the WLC (and vice versa), it would seem to me that multicast routing would only need to be enabled ...
Thanks for the response Rasika. I have attached a PCap to illustrate the issue. This PCap was Taken on the R0 interface to Switch A. The important thing about this PCap is that it shows that there is no multicast referenced below the CAPWAP layer, wh...
I am still very interested in the answer to why is Multicast required on R0 and R1, when the actual IP header source and dest are the AP and WLC, and does not contain multicast information?
Your post on configuring Multicast on WLC was exactly what I was looking for in relation to IGMP detail on the WLC. This allowed me to view that the AP is part of the multicast group. show network multicast mgid detail ### I conducted a PCap and the ...