IP Multicast

Table 1. IP Multicast Maximums

Attribute

Maximum number supported

IGMP interfaces

4,000

PIM interfaces (Active/Passive )

512/3,000

Multicast receivers/IGMP receiver entries (per switch)

6,000*

Note:

6000 is the the total number of unique SGVs for which there are receivers. The total number of receivers can be greater than 6000 if there are multiple receivers for the same group.

Multicast senders/IGMP sender entries (per switch)

6,000

PIM-SSM static channels

4,000

Total multicast routes (S,G,V) (per switch)

6,000

Note

Note

IPv4 Routes, IPv4 SGV sender records, IPv6 Routes and IPv6 neighbor records reside in the same shared hardware table. If records of all 4 types are present together in this shared table, then the actual numbers that can be supported might be less than the scaling numbers indicated in the above tables.