How to Configure Basic Multicast with Static Rendezvous Point

This document walks through configuring PIM-SM with sender and receiver configuration. Palo Alto Networks supports only PIM-SM and PIM-SSM on Layer 3 and Vwire mode.

Static Rendezvous Point (RP) Configuration Steps

1. Go to Network > Virtual Router > Multicast > Rendezvous Point and configure the static Local Rendezvous Point.  In the Group List, add the groups that should be part of this multicast group.

   

2. Click Interfaces and configure the interfaces that will take part in Multicast routing.

   

   Note: As this is acting as a sender, IGMP is not enabled.  Be sure to enable PIM on the interfaces otherwise multicast routing will fail.

3. Configure security policy to allow this traffic. PAN uses a zone called "Multicast" as destination zone for this traffic.

   

    

   This completes the sender configuration.

4. The receiver config is similar to the sender, the difference being IGMP enabled on the client facing interface to ensure the clients join the multicast group.

   RP type is 'None' as this will manually configure the remote RP as shown below with the groups allowed.

   

5. As noted above, IGMP is enabled on eth1/4 which connects to the receiver.

   

6. Allow the multicast traffic on the receiver.

   

7. Commit the configuration on both the devices.
8. To test the configuration, using two hosts which act as sender and receiver respectively.  The free software mCast can be used to broadcast short text messages.
9. To verify the multicast status, run the following commands from the CLI:

   On the receiver

   

    

   On the RP, the sender is identified

   

10. From the GUI, click on runtime stats in the virtual router.

    

See Also

How to Facilitate Multicast Routing when only One Palo Alto Networks Firewall Between the Sender and Recipients

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