Multicast BGP Support

[bds38]

Hi There,

I am trying to work out whether I should use a FortiGate to pair with two upstream Cisco routers over BGP and I seem to have hit a snag. 

Currently, where I plan to put the FortiGate in the topology, there is a 3600 series Cisco router which is paired with the two upstream Cisco 4500 series routers VIA BGP. The 3600 series router distributes IPv4, IPv6 and Multicast routes to the upstream routers via the address-family ipv4 multicast, address-family ipv4 unicast and address-family ipv6 commands. MBGP is supported on Cisco equipment and this all works quite nicely. 

Having tried to mimic the configuration on the 3600 series Cisco router on a FortiGate, I have discovered it is fine for IPv4 and IPv6 but I cannot find any reference to multicast over BGP. Has anyone had any experience of this issue or have I missed something? It may be that MBGP simply isn't supported on FortiGate and I have to bin the idea.

[Benoit_Rech_FTNT · Accepted solution]

Hello,

currently, there is no support in MP-BGP for multicast on the FortiGate.

You can configure unicast IPv4 and unicast IPv6.

Best regards,

Benoit

[bds38]

Thanks Benoit! I was just looking for confirmation so this is helpful :)