IGMP Snooping/IGMP Filtering Application
Without IGMP snooping, multicast traffic is treated in the same manner as broadcast traffic, that is, it is forwarded to all ports. With IGMP snooping, multicast traffic of a group is only forwarded to ports that have members of that group. IGMP snooping generates no additional network traffic, allowing you to significantly reduce multicast traffic passing through the
Internet
Video
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