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GS-2124C User Manual

Publication date: June, 2005

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3-7. IGMP Snooping

The function, IGMP Snooping, is used to establish the multicast groups to

forward the multicast packet to the member ports, and, in nature, avoids wasting the

bandwidth while IP multicast packets are running over the network. This is because

a switch that does not support IGMP or IGMP Snooping can not tell the multicast

packet from the broadcast packet, so it can only treat them all as the broadcast

packet. Without IGMP Snooping, the multicast packet forwarding function is plain

and nothing is different from broadcast packet.

A switch supported IGMP Snooping with the functions of query, report and

leave, a type of packet exchanged between IP Multicast Router/Switch and IP

Multicast Host, can update the information of the Multicast table when a member

(port) joins or leaves an IP Multicast Destination Address. With this function, once a

switch receives an IP multicast packet, it will forward the packet to the members

who joined in a specified IP multicast group before.

Fig. 3-23

Function name:

IGMP Snooping

Function description:

IGMP is used to snoop the status of IP multicast groups and display its

associated information in both tagged VLAN and non-tagged VLAN networks.

Enabling IGMP with either passive or active mode, you can monitor the IGMP

snooping information, which contains the multicast member list with the

multicast groups, VID and member port.

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