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Multicast IP and Windows 2016

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Tuesday, March 3, 2020 10:06 AM

Greetings  everyone

We are doing some tests where  one  of  sales  project  seems to  show a demo     for multicast

Network team has  take care of multicast  requirements  at   switch level

and provided  us  with  Centos  and  windows vms.  all vms are on same esxi node

centos vms  ( 3 vms)  once w e follow  steps   and assign multicast ips   responds   to multicast group    ( for testing 224.0.0.1)

however, when we  now assign multicast IP    to  windows Vm  

and perform ping test     on multicast  224.0.0.1

the  linux vms are responding   in PING results  , but w ecan see  Windows  Server IP

also  from linux vms   when testing via PINg  windows server IP  is not   responding  in multicast  test.

some of changes  I tried   at windows 2016 vm we followed   followinglink

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/0d0da348-3b8b-4790-8aa2-60740a02536f/windows-7-and-igmp-multicast?forum=w7itpronetworking&prof=required

1.type “regedit” , then navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\
1.In the right pane, right-click and select New – DWORD (32-bit value) and set its name as “IGMPVersion” , set it with the value 4
1.Version values:
2 – Support IGMP version 1
3 – Support IGMP version 2
4 – Support IGMP version 3 (default)
1.In the right pane, right-click and select New – DWORD (32-bit value) and set its name as “IGMPLevel” and set it to 2
2.Level  values:
0 – Disable Multicast support
1 – Support only sending IPv4 Multicast packets (do not receive)
2 – Fully participate in IGMP. Support sending and receiving Multicast packets (default)
Here is the reference download link for the IGMP values:

changes to TCP/IP registry values

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=9152

netsh interface ipv4 set interface Ethernet2 weakhostsend=enabled
netsh interface ipv4 set interface Ethernet2 weakhostsend=enabled
netsh interface ipv4 set interface  Ethernet2 weakhostreceive=enabled
netsh interface ipv4 set interface   Ethernet2 weakhostreceive=enabled

• C:\Users\Administrator>netsh interface ip show joins

Interface 6: Ethernet0

Scope References Last Address

0 0 Yes 224.0.0.1
0 1 Yes 224.0.0.251
0 1 Yes 224.0.0.252
0 1 Yes 224.0.0.253
0 1 Yes 239.255.255.250
• this shows that it is joining?
• i have chnaged wekhost send values
• also

All replies (1)

Wednesday, March 4, 2020 7:01 AM

Hi,

Yes, the results show that the 224.0.0.1 has been added to the multicast group.

If the windows server IP still not respond in multicast test, we recommend that you use the Network Monitor tool for  further analysis.

However, from forum support level, analysis of packet capture is beyond our scope.

So if the issue is urgent, I suggest you open a case with Microsoft, more in-depth investigation can be done so that you would get a more satisfying explanation and solution to this issue.

Here is the link:https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4051701/global-customer-service-phone-numbers

Please let us know if you would like further assistance.

Have a nice day!

Allan

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