Thought I'd share the config it took to get Vodafone TV working on my HP MSR 935 router, but the general config should apply to most Cisco routers as well.Firstly, it has been widely discussed on these forums that VF TV uses 'multicast', but I'd like to elaborate on that slightly here...IGMP or 'Internet Group Message Protocol' is basically a way for multicast clients to request or 'join' groups, or in our case, a way for the STB request the stream for a particular TV channel.The STB sends 'join' requests to inform the upstream Vodafone devices that it would like to receive a particular stream; to get this working behind NAT, the Residential Gateway must be configured as an IGMP Proxy. (This is because your internal addressing is not-routable and 'hidden' to Vodafone)This works in two parts:1) The inside interface of the router must have IGMP enabled so it can send membership queries and receive join requests/membership reports.In other words, it listens for and receives multicast requests from the STB.2) The outside interface of the router is configured as an IGMP proxy interface so it can send join requests / membership reports on behalf of the clients sitting on the internal LAN.In terms of the actual config, here's what I have configured:# Enable multicast routing / igmp globallymulticast routing-enableigmp version 3 fast-leave# Internal interface settingsinterface Vlan-interface20 description Internal Network ip address 192.168.20.0 255.255.255.0 igmp enable# External interface settingsinterface GigabitEthernet0/0.10 description External vlan-type dot1q vid 10 firewall packet-filter 3000 inbound firewall aspf 1 outbound nat outbound 2101 ip address dhcp-alloc igmp proxying enable# ACL acl number 3000 rule 20 permit igmp source 10.0.0.2 0 destination 224.0.0.1 0 rule 25 permit udp source 203.167.247.45 0The 2 lines above allow IGMP membership queries from the upstream Vodafone router to my router, and allow the actual TV streams (each use a different UDP port) from the multicast source.10.0.0.2 is the VF multicast querier, 224.0.0.1 is the 'all hosts' multicast group address, and 203.167.247.45 is the multicast source.I had to use a sub-interface on a physical interface for the IGMP proxy, a VLAN interface would not work properly.I believe the STB supports both IGMP version 2 and 3, but I have chosen to use version 3 in my setup.IGMP fast leave is enabled so that when channel changes occur, the router leaves the multicast group immediately to prevent congestion from multiple streams stacking up from quick channel changes.Hope this can be useful to someone else trying to get this working on their device! :)
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