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STEP 4 Set the type to indicate whether the entry is statically configured or dynamically learned. Ports can become members of a particular MAC address group dynamically through the exchange of IGMP packets, or you can statically configure them as members.

STEP 5 Click Apply. Your changes are saved to the Running Configuration.

Configuring IGMP Snooping

Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) is a layer 3 Internet protocol that enables IPv4 networks to manage memberships to multicast groups. (IPv6 multicast traffic is managed using the MLD protocol, as described in Configuring MLD Snooping.) IGMP communication occurs between IGMP routers and IGMP- enabled hosts (clients). Although the switch does not initiate or reply to IGMP packets, it can be configured to listen to IGMP communication between routers and clients that are connected by the switch, and to make forwarding decisions that help to reduce unnecessary network traffic.This listening behavior is referred to as IGMP snooping. This is particularly beneficial for high-bandwidth multicast network traffic.

Ordinarily, when the switch receives broadcast or multicast packets, the switch forwards a copy into each of the remaining network segments. This approach works well for broadcast packets that are intended to be processed by all connected nodes. For multicast packets, however, this approach could lead to less efficient use of network bandwidth, particularly when the packet is intended for only a small number of nodes; packets are flooded into network segments where no node has an interest in receiving the packet.

IGMP snooping enables the switch to intercept membership reports from IGMP clients and queries from routers. If the intercepted communications indicate that no IGMP clients exist on a link for a particular multicast destination address within a VLAN, then the switch does not send copies of those multicast packets to that network segment.

IGMP snooping can be enabled or disabled on each VLAN. When enabled on a

VLAN, IGMP snooping is performed on all interfaces that are members of that

VLAN.

Although IGMP is based on IP multicast addresses, the switch performs the actual multicast forwarding based on the equivalent MAC addresses.

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SLM2008PTNA specifications

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