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Chapter11 Configuring IGMP Snooping and M VR Configuring IGMP Snooping
Note You should only use the Immediate-Leave processing feature on VLANs where a si ngle h ost 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 be inadvertently dropped. Im mediate Leave is supported with
only IGMP version 2 hosts.
Configuring IGMP Snooping
IGMP snooping allows switches to examine IGMP packets and m ake for war ding de cision s b ased on
their content. To enable IGMP snooping on the switch to discover external multicast routers, the Layer3
interfaces on the routers in the VLAN must already have been configured for multicast routing. For more
information, see Chapter 24, Configuring IP Multicast Routing.
These sections describe how to configure IGMP snooping:
Default IGMP Snooping Configuration, page 11-5
Enabling or Disabling IGMP Snooping, page 11-5
Setting the Snooping Method, page 11-6
Configuring a Multicast Router Port, page 11-7
Configuring a Host Statically to Join a Group, page 11-8
Enabling IGMP Immediate-Leave Processing, page 11-9

Default IGMP Snooping Configuration

Table11-3 shows the def ault IGM P sn oop ing co nfigu rat ion.

Enabling or Disabling IGMP Snooping

By default, IGMP snooping is globally enabled on the switch. When globally enabled or disabled, it is
also enabled or disabled in all existing VLAN interfaces. IGMP snooping is by default enable d on all
VLANs, but can be enabled and disabled on a per-VLAN basis. After you configure the VLAN interface
for multicast routing, no configuration is needed for the switch to dynamically access external mul ticast
routers by using IGMP snooping.
Global IGMP snooping overrides the VLAN IGMP snooping. If global snoo ping is disabled, you cannot
enable VLAN snooping. If global snooping is enabled, you can enable or disable VLAN snoop ing.
Table11-3 Default IGMP Snooping Configuration
Feature Default Setting
IGMP snooping Enabled globally and per VLAN
Multicast routers None configured
Multicast router learning (snooping) method PIM-DVMRP
IGMP snooping Immediate Leave Disabled
Static groups None configured