Stopping snoopers from snooping non-IGMP messages > Preventing an All Groups entry for a port

9.Display port 24’s packet counters, which show that many multicast packets have been transmitted on the port.

Manager Switch 2> show switch port=24 counter

Switch Port Counters

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Port 24. Fast Ethernet MAC counters:

 

 

Combined receive/transmit packets by size (octets) counters:

 

64

84 512 - 1023

0

65 - 127

16 1024 - MaxPktSz

830

128 - 255

0

1519 - 1522

0

256 - 511

 

0

 

General Counters:

 

 

 

Receive

 

Transmit

 

Octets

1312 Octets

1135836

Pkts

16

Pkts

914

FCSErrors

0

FCSErrors

0

MulticastPkts

16

MulticastPkts

914

BroadcastPkts

0

BroadcastPkts

0

PauseMACCtlFrms

0

PauseMACCtrlFrm

0

OversizePkts

0

OversizePkts

0

Fragments

0

Fragments

0

Jabbers

0

Jabbers

0

.

 

 

 

.

 

 

 

.

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In summary, when a port receives the All Groups designation, a stream is sent to that port when either:

zthe stream's group entry times out and is refreshed, or

zthe port's internal timer hits zero and is refreshed

It is most likely that the group entry will time out first.

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