Multicast Traffic and IPIP Tunnel

RouterOS General
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I am running two RB2011UiAS routers as two separate sites. I need to be able to allow multicast traffic between the two sites, I have seen that I need to allow PIM on the interfaces, however the Multicast option is not shown in Routing.

Is there another way to enable multicast traffic?

System info
RouterOS 6.30.2

Thanks

2

You need to add the multicast package. Check in system packages to see whether the package is installed but deactivated. If so, just enable it and reboot. If not, upload the multicast package for your version of ROS into the files list, and then reboot. It should be active by default if you just installed it like that.

3

Hi,
I didn’t exactly got what you gonna do,but I think you can use Eoip or L2tp tunnel,they carry L2 traffic

4

I definitely recommend using PIM and the multicast routing package - simply bridging will cause multicast traffic to cross the link whether it’s wanted or not (ROS infamously does not support IGMP snooping)

5

Thank you, I was able to add the multicast package, now time to set it up.