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Configuring IGMP Snooping

not have any member, the switch will notify the multicast router to remove it from the multicast tree.

Configuring IGMP Snooping is described in the following sections:

Configuring IGMP Snooping

Example: IGMP Snooping Configuration

Troubleshooting IGMP Snooping

The main IGMP Snooping configuration includes:

Enabling/Disabling IGMP Snooping

Configure Router Port Aging Time

Configuring Maximum Response Time

Configure Aging Time of Multicast Group Member

Displaying and Debugging IGMP Snooping

Of the above configuration tasks, enabling IGMP Snooping is required, while others are optional.

Enabling/Disabling IGMP Snooping

You can use the following commands to enable/disable IGMP Snooping on Layer 2.

Perform the following configuration in system view. To enable IGMP snooping, you must also issue the igmp-snooping enable command in VLAN view.

Table 133 Enable/Disable IGMP Snooping

Operation

Command

 

 

Enable/disable IGMP Snooping

igmp-snooping { enable disable }

Restore the default setting

undo igmp-snooping

 

 

IGMP Snooping and GMRP cannot run at the same time. You can check if GMRP is running, using the display gmrp status command, in all views, before enabling IGMP Snooping.

By default, IGMP Snooping is disabled.

Configure Router Port Aging Time

Use this to manually configure the router port aging time. If the switch has not received a general query message from the router prior to it aging, it will remove the port from all the MAC multicast groups.

Perform the following configuration in system view.

Table 134 Configure Router Port Aging Time

Operation

Command

 

 

Configure router port aging time

igmp-snooping router-aging-time

 

seconds

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