Wireless Multicast with Cisco WLC
Recently the question of multicast over Wi-Fi came up again at the office, so it was time to set it up and see what happens. All the configuration and test results are documented below.
The basic lab setup.
First, we need to remember that sending multicast to the AP requires multicast communication between WLC and AP. This means the LAN needs to be multicast enabled, otherwise this will just not work. This is less of an issue in a small lab such as this as everything can be on the same VLAN, but on larger networks this is unlikely to be the case.
Once the LAN is multicast ready we can move on to WLC configuration, and we see that there is actually very little of it.