Overview

Fast Path Multicast IPv6 provides IPv6 multicasting in the fast path.

IPv6 multicasting is part of the IPv6 specification:

RFC 2460

Features

• (S,G) support

• (*,G) support

• (*,*) support

• multicast group filtering

• VRF support

Dependencies

6WINDGate modules

• Fast Path Baseline

• Fast Path Forwarding IPv6

Linux

• Synchronization of multicasting in the fast path depends on a kernel patch (upstream 3.8):

  http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8cd3ac9f9b7b