Accton Technology VS4512DC manual Assigning Ports to Multicast Services, Command Usage

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Configuring the Switch

Web – Click IGMP Snooping, IP Multicast Registration Table. Select a VLAN ID and the IP address for a multicast service from the scroll-down lists. The switch will display all the interfaces that are propagating this multicast service.

CLI – The following shows the multicast entries learned through IGMP snooping for VLAN 1:

Console#show

mac-address-table multicast vlan 1 igmp-snooping

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VLAN M'cast

IP addr. Member ports

Type

 

---- ---------------

------------

-------

 

1

224.1.2.3

Eth1/1

IGMP

 

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Assigning Ports to Multicast Services

Multicast filtering can be dynamically configured using IGMP Snooping and IGMP Query messages as described in “Configuring IGMP Snooping and Query Parameters” on page 3-110.For certain applications that require tighter control, you may need to statically configure a multicast service on the switch. First add all the ports attached to participating hosts to a common VLAN, and then assign the multicast service to that VLAN group.

Command Usage

Static multicast addresses are never aged out.

When a multicast address is assigned to an interface in a specific VLAN, the corresponding traffic can only be forwarded to ports within that VLAN.

Command Attribute

Interface – Activates the Port or Trunk scroll down list.

VLAN ID – Selects the VLAN to propagate all multicast traffic coming from the attached multicast router/switch.

Multicast IP – The IP address for a specific multicast service

Port or Trunk – Specifies the interface attached to a multicast router/switch.

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Accton Technology VS4512DC manual Assigning Ports to Multicast Services, Command Usage

VS4512DC, VS4512 specifications

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