topic Re: Multicast Over Gateway in Spark Firewall (SMB)

Multicast Over Gateway

Eli85 — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 12:33:52 GMT

I guys,

I have appliane 600 v R.77.20.31 , pretty old I know ....

Is this fw support mulicast routing ? I didnt find such optoin after searcing in the deivice itself or in the manual ....

Thank you 🙂

Re: Multicast Over Gateway

PhoneBoy — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:06:05 GMT

Multicast Routing requires support for PIM, which the SMB may not have.
Possible it’s in more recent firmware (R77.20.80 is the latest for that hardware).

Re: Multicast Over Gateway

the_rock — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:23:45 GMT

Just asked AI copilot and it says not supported, see below.

Andy

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No, Quantum Spark 600 appliances do not support multicast routing. The Quantum Spark 600 series has limitations regarding IPv6 and does not support IPv6 at all, which includes multicast routing capabilities.

Learn more:

Re: Multicast Over Gateway

G_W_Albrecht — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 10:17:11 GMT

https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/SMB-Gateways-Spark/Bridged-WLAN-LAN-Apple-Multicast-issue-resolved/m-p/144768#M6643

Re: Multicast Over Gateway

G_W_Albrecht — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 10:22:07 GMT

Points 2,3,4,5,6 and 8 are not relevant for SMB 600. Points 7 and 9 are identical and also not relevant for SMB 600. You need no IPv6 for multicast routing at all, so the given reason also is wrong... I wonder why you post that at all!