Enabling Multicast Routing

This section provides a sample of enabling multicast routing using the edit-config method.

**Table 1** Enabling multicast routing
Operation	XPATH
edit-config	/huawei-mcastbase:mcastbase/mcastAfsEnables/mcastAfsEnable/vrfName /huawei-mcastbase:mcastbase/mcastAfsEnables/mcastAfsEnable/vrfName/addrFamily

Data Requirement

Item	Data	Description
VPN instance name	ddd	-
VPN instance address family	ipv4unicast	-

Request Example

Enable multicast routing.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rpc xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0" message-id="10">
  <edit-config>
    <target>
      <running/>
    </target>
    <config>
      <mcastbase:mcastbase xmlns:mcastbase="http://www.huawei.com/netconf/vrp/huawei-mcastbase">
        <mcastbase:mcastAfsEnables>
          <mcastbase:mcastAfsEnable>
            <mcastbase:vrfName>ddd</mcastbase:vrfName>
            <mcastbase:addressFamily>ipv4unicast</mcastbase:addressFamily>
          </mcastbase:mcastAfsEnable>
        </mcastbase:mcastAfsEnables>
      </mcastbase:mcastbase>
    </config>
  </edit-config>
</rpc>

Response Example

Sample of successful response

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rpc-reply xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0" message-id="10">
  <ok/>
</rpc-reply>

Sample of failed response

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rpc-reply xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0" message-id="14">
  <rpc-error>
    <error-type>application</error-type>
    <error-tag>operation-failed</error-tag>
    <error-severity>error</error-severity>
    <error-path>/huawei-mcastbase:mcastbase/mcastAfsEnables/mcastAfsEnable[vrfName='ddd'][addressFamily='ipv4uni cast']/addressFamily</error-path>
    <error-message>parse rpc config error.(Invalid value in "addressFamily" element.).</error-message>
  </rpc-error>
</rpc-reply>