Cisco Systems 3750E Configuring TCN-Related Commands, Recovering from Flood Mode, Count, 24-13

Chapter 24 Configuring IGMP Snooping and MVR

Configuring IGMP Snooping

Configuring TCN-Related Commands

These sections describe how to control flooded multicast traffic during a TCN event:

•Controlling the Multicast Flooding Time After a TCN Event, page 24-13

•Recovering from Flood Mode, page 24-13

•Disabling Multicast Flooding During a TCN Event, page 24-14

Controlling the Multicast Flooding Time After a TCN Event

You can control the time that multicast traffic is flooded after a TCN event by using the ip igmp snooping tcn flood query count global configuration command. This command configures the number of general queries for which multicast data traffic is flooded after a TCN event. Some examples of TCN events are when the client changed its location and the receiver is on same port that was blocked but is now forwarding, and when a port went down without sending a leave message.

If you set the TCN flood query count to 1 by using the ip igmp snooping tcn flood query count command, the flooding stops after receiving 1 general query. If you set the count to 7, the flooding until 7 general queries are received. Groups are relearned based on the general queries received during the TCN event.

Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to configure the TCN flood query count:

	Command	Purpose
Step 1
	configure terminal	Enter global configuration mode.
Step 2 ip igmp snooping tcn flood query count		Specify the number of IGMP general queries for which the multicast
	count	traffic is flooded. The range is 1 to 10. By default, the flooding query
		count is 2.
Step 3
	end	Return to privileged EXEC mode.
Step 4
	show ip igmp snooping	Verify the TCN settings.
Step 5
	copy running-config startup-config	(Optional) Save your entries in the configuration file.

To return to the default flooding query count, use the no ip igmp snooping tcn flood query count global configuration command.

Recovering from Flood Mode

When a topology change occurs, the spanning-tree root sends a special IGMP leave message (also known as global leave) with the group multicast address 0.0.0.0. However, when you enable the ip igmp snooping tcn query solicit global configuration command, the switch sends the global leave message whether or not it is the spanning-tree root. When the router receives this special leave, it immediately sends general queries, which expedite the process of recovering from the flood mode during the TCN event. Leaves are always sent if the switch is the spanning-tree root regardless of this configuration command. By default, query solicitation is disabled.

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