SMC Networks 10/100 manual Multicast Configuration

CONFIGURING THE SWITCH

Web – Click SNMP, SNMP Configuration. Fill in the IP address and community string for each Trap Manager that will receive these messages, mark Enable Authentication Traps if required, and then click Add.

CLI – This example adds a trap manager and enables authentication traps.

Console(config)#snmp-server	host 10.1.19.23 batman version 1	3-57
Console(config)#snmp-server	enable traps authentication	3-58

Multicast Configuration

Multicasting is used to support real-time applications such as video conferencing or streaming audio. A multicast server does not have to establish a separate connection with each client. It merely broadcasts its service to the network, and any hosts that want to receive the multicast register with their local multicast switch/ router. Although this approach reduces the network overhead required by a multicast server, the broadcast traffic must be carefully pruned at every multicast switch/router it passes through to ensure that traffic is only passed on the hosts which subscribed to this service.

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