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Chapter14 Configuring IGMP Snooping and MVR
Understanding IGMP Snooping
Immediate-Leave ProcessingImmediate Leave is only supported with IGMP version2 hosts.
The switch uses IGMP snooping Immediate-Leave processing to remove from the forwarding table an
interface that sends a leave message without the switch sending group-specific queries to the interface.
The VLAN interface is pruned from the multicast tree for the multicast group specified in the original
leave message. Immediate-Leave processing ensures optimal bandwidth management for all host s on a
switched network, even when multiple multicast groups are simultaneously in use.
Note You should only use the Immediate-Leave processing feature on VLANs where a si ngle host is
connected to each port. If Immediate Leave is enabled in VLANs where more than one host is connected
to a port, some hosts might inadvertently be dropped.
IGMP Configurable-Leave Timer In Cisco IOS Release 12.1(22)EA2 and earlier, the IGMP snooping leave time was fixed at 5 seco nds.
If membership reports were not received by the switch before the que ry response time of the query
expired, a port was removed from the multicast group membership. However, some applications require
a leave latency of less than 5 seconds.
In Cisco IOS Release 12.1(22)EA3 and later, you can configure the time that the switch waits after
sending a group-specific query to determine if hosts are still interested in a specific multicast group. The
IGMP leave response time can be configured from 100 to 5000 milliseconds. Th e timer can be set either
globally or on a per-VLAN basis. The VLAN configuration of the leave time overrides the global
configuration.
IGMP Report SuppressionNote IGMP report suppression is supported only when the multicast query has IGMPv1 and IGMPv2 reports.
This feature is not supported when the query includes IGMPv3 reports.
The switch uses IGMP report suppression to forward only one IGMP report per multicast router query
to multicast devices. When IGMP router suppression is enabled (the default), the switch sends the first
IGMP report from all hosts for a group to all the multicast routers. The switch does not send the
remaining IGMP reports for the group to the multicast routers. This feature prevents duplicate reports
from being sent to the multicast devices.
If the multicast router query includes requests only for IGMPv1 and IGMPv2 reports, the switch
forwards only the first IGMPv1 or IGMPv2 report from all hosts for a group to all the multicast routers.
If the multicast router query also includes requests for IGMPv3 reports, the switch forwards all IGMPv1,
IGMPv2, and IGMPv3 reports for a group to the multicast devices.
If you disable IGMP report suppression, all IGMP reports are forwarded to the multicast routers.