Adding Multicast to a Cisco NCS 540
We recently got some Cisco NCS 540’s which we need to deploy. By default when they were shipped they didn’t have multicast activated or even have the RPM installed.
For those familiar with the ASR platform, the NCS platform also uses the same IOS-XR software, but with version 6.0 they moved away from the PIE software to RPM software on the system so the commands are slightly different. Here are the commands I had to run through to get multicast working on the system. After completing the below 1 step at a time (each step takes time to complete so don’t just try copying all steps in at the same time) you will be able to use your standard multicast commands on the system.
1.Copy TAR file from usb or ftp to harddisk: USB uses disk2:
copy disk2: NCS540-iosxr-k9-6.3.3.tar harddisk:
2. Add the Tar file as a source. Keep the space between harddisk: and the file name
Install add source harddisk: NCS540-iosxr-k9-6.3.3.tar
3. Activate the multicast RPM
Install activate ncs540-mcast-1.0.0.0-r633
4. Commit the Installation
Install commit