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350-501 · Question #620

Refer to the exhibit. A large enterprise streams training videos from a server connected to R4 to hosts connected to R5. PIM-SM is configured in the network using IGMPv2, with R2 serving as the RP. OS

The correct answer is C. Upgrade IGMPv2 to IGMPv3.. To migrate from PIM-SM to SSM, the network engineering team must upgrade IGMPv2 to IGMPv3 on hosts and routers.

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Refer to the exhibit. A large enterprise streams training videos from a server connected to R4 to hosts connected to R5. PIM-SM is configured in the network using IGMPv2, with R2 serving as the RP. OSPF is configured in the network to support IGP routing, and the network uses BGP to access the internet through R3. The network engineering team must migrate the network to SSM. Which action must the team take to begin the migration?

Options

  • AEnable the MDT address family in BGP.
  • BChange the PIM version from PIM-SM to PIM-DM.
  • CUpgrade IGMPv2 to IGMPv3.
  • DUpdate the device configurations so that R5 will serve as the RP.

How the community answered

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  • A
    5% (1)
  • B
    11% (2)
  • C
    79% (15)
  • D
    5% (1)

Why each option

To migrate from PIM-SM to SSM, the network engineering team must upgrade IGMPv2 to IGMPv3 on hosts and routers.

AEnable the MDT address family in BGP.

Enabling MDT address family in BGP is related to multicast VPNs and not directly to the transition from PIM-SM to SSM on the core network.

BChange the PIM version from PIM-SM to PIM-DM.

Changing PIM-SM to PIM-DM would change the multicast forwarding mode from sparse to dense, which is not the same as migrating to SSM and typically leads to inefficient flooding.

CUpgrade IGMPv2 to IGMPv3.Correct

Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) requires Internet Group Management Protocol Version 3 (IGMPv3) on the hosts to specify both the multicast group address and the source address. Without IGMPv3, hosts cannot indicate a specific source, which is fundamental to SSM's operation.

DUpdate the device configurations so that R5 will serve as the RP.

In Source-Specific Multicast (SSM), there is no need for a Rendezvous Point (RP) because receivers explicitly join multicast groups from specific sources, eliminating the RP's role in source discovery.

Concept tested: PIM-SM to SSM migration requirements

Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios/solutions_docs/ip_multicast/White_papers/ssm.html

Topics

#Multicast#SSM (Source Specific Multicast)#IGMPv3#PIM-SM

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