The invention provides a
multicast service management device and a corresponding forwarding device. The forwarding device comprises a
service control unit, an
access port and a service forwarding unit, wherein the
service control unit receives a service scheduling instruction sent by a
virtual machine (VM), obtains a
multicast address used by a coding terminal carried by the instruction, an
IP address of the coding terminal and an
IP address of a decoding terminal, determines an
access port of a
branch containing the coding terminal according to the
IP address of the coding terminal, and sends an IGMP Report message from the
access port corresponding to the coding terminal to request accession of a corresponding
multicast group so as to obtain a multicast
stream sent by the coding terminal; the access port determines the
branch containing the decoding terminal according to the IP address of the decoding terminal, generates a corresponding multicast forwarding entry, and adds the entry into a multicast forwarding table; and the service forwarding unit is used for querying the multicast forwarding table and forwarding the multicast
stream to the decoding terminal when receiving the multicast
stream sent by the coding terminal. The management device and the forwarding device effectively solve the problem of flooding access links of multicast traffic to headquarters.