Asante Technologies 3500 Series Resetting Vlan Configuration to Defaults, Multicast Addresses

IntraCore 3524 Unit 1 Port VLAN Info

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Port	PVID	Vlan	Acceptable	Ingress	Port
Number		Membership	Frame Type	Filtering	Type

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1	0001 0001u		All Frames Disabled	Normal
2	0001 0001u		All Frames Disabled	Normal
3	0001 0001u		All Frames Disabled	Normal
4	0001 0001u		All Frames Disabled	Normal
5	0001 0001u		All Frames Disabled	Normal
6	0001 0001u		All Frames Disabled	Normal
7	0001 0001u		All Frames Disabled	Normal
8	0001 0001u		All Frames Disabled	Normal
9	0001 0001u		All Frames Disabled	Normal
10	0001 0001u		All Frames Disabled	Normal
11	0001 0001u		All Frames Disabled	Normal
12	0001	0001u	All Frames Disabled	Normal
13	0001	0001u	All Frames Disabled	Normal
14	0001	0001u	All Frames Disabled	Normal
15	0001	0001u	All Frames Disabled	Normal

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Vlan Port Menu Help

4.4.7 Resetting VLAN Configuration to Defaults

To reset the security measures on the switch to the factory defaults, access the VLAN Management Menu by typing v in the Configuration Menu. Then type r to reset all of the VLAN configurations that have been changed back to the factory-set defaults.

4.5 IP Multicast Traffic Management

Multicast traffic is a means to transmit a multimedia stream from the Internet (a video conference, for example) without requiring a TCP connection from every remote host that wants to receive the stream. The stream is sent to the multicast address, and from there it’s propagated to all interested parties on the Internet.

Traditional IP communication allows a host to send packets to a single host (unicast transmission) or to all hosts (broadcast transmission). IP multicast provides a third scheme, allowing a host to send packets to a subset of all hosts (group transmission).

Multicast Addresses

Multicasts are sent to special IP addresses in the range from 224.0.0.0 through 239.0.0.0. These are also called “Class D” addresses. The IP multicast address always begins with the four bits 1110 (which identifies the address as a multicast). The remaining 28 bits of the multicast address specify the individual multicast group.

When an end station wants to join in an IP multicast group, it binds the multicast address of that group to its network interface. When a node is using an IP multicast address it also uses an Ethernet multicast address. Ethernet IP multicast addresses begin 01:00:5e. The remaining 24 bits are the lowest 24 bits of the IP multicast address. There is not a 1-to-1 mapping of IP multicast addresses to Ethernet multicast addresses. When configuring a VLAN for multicast traffic, you specify the Ethernet address for the multicast group (see “Multicast Forwarding Database Configuration” ).

IGMP

Communication on a LAN between end stations and routers is managed by the Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP). For complete information about IGMP, see RFC 1112, “Host Extensions...” and RFC 2236, “Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 2” <ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/ rfc2236.txt>.

A router that supports multicast and IGMP sends periodic messages called “queries” on its LAN interfaces. These queries inquire if any end stations want to join a multicast group. End stations signal their desire to join the multicast group by responding with an IGMP “report.” By using a multicast routing protocol, such as

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