The smfCfgAddrForwardingTable is essentially a filter table (if populated) that identifies addresses/packets to be forwarded via the local SMF flooding process. The IP Multicast MIB module in RFC 5132 manages objects related to standard IP multicast, which could be running in parallel to SMF on the device. RFC 5132 manages traditional IP-based multicast (based upon multicast routing mechanisms). The SMF-MIB module provides management for a MANET subnet-based flooding mechanism that may be used for multicast transport (through SMF broadcast) depending upon the MANET dynamics and other factors regarding the MANET subnet. Further, they may coexist in certain MANET deployments using the smfCfgAddrForwardingTable to hand certain IP multicast addresses to the SMF process and other IP multicast packets to be forwarded by other multicast mechanisms that are IP route based. SMF and the associated SMF-MIB module are experimental and these are some of the experiments to be had with SMF and the SMF-MIB module. This is the (conceptual) table containing information on multicast addresses that are to be forwarded by the SMF process. This table represents an IP filters table for forwarding (or not) packets based upon their IP multicast address. The SMF process can be configured to forward only those multicast addresses found within the smfCfgAddrForwardingTable. As such, addresses that are to be forwarded by the SMF process MUST be found within the address ranges configured within this table, unless this table is empty. Each row is associated with a range of multicast addresses, and ranges for different rows must be disjoint. Different rows MAY share a common smfCfgAddrForwardingGroupName to administratively associate different rows. The objects in this table are persistent and, when written, the entity SHOULD save the change to non-volatile storage.