IP-based Forwarding Implementation on ICX Devices

When an IPv6 multicast data packet is received, the packet destination IP address is matched with the IP address entries in the IPv6 multicast table. If a match is found, packets are sent to the ports associated with the IP address. If a match is not found, packets are flooded to the VLAN and copied to the CPU.

For two multicast traffic streams, Source_1 and Group1 (S1,G1) and Source_2 and Group2 (S2,G2), with the same or different source addresses, if the lowest 32 bits of the 128-bit IPv6 group address are the same, they would map to the same destination address.