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DES-3326 Layer 3 Fast Ethernet Switch User’s Guide

Click the IEEE802.1Q Multicast Forwarding link on the Multicasting menu:

Figure 7-39. Setup IEEE 802.1Q Multicast Forwarding window

When the switch is in Layer 2 operating mode, IEEE 802.1Q multicast forwarding allows the static entry of multicast MAC addresses, which will be sources of multicast packets, and switch port numbers, to which these multicast packets will be forwarded. The ports that can be chosen as the destination for multicast packets from the above MAC multicast address, are limited to the ports belonging to the VLAN that corresponds to the VID entered in the VID field.

Each port of a given VLAN can be configured as an egress member, a forbidden non-member, or as a non-member of the multicast group that will receive multicast packets from the multicast MAC address, by clicking the click-box below each port of the VLAN to the appropriate code.

The following fields can be set:

Parameter	Description
MAC Address	Allows the entry of the MAC address
	of a static multicast group member.
VID	Allows the specification of the VLAN
	ID (VID) of the VLAN the static
	multicast group member belongs to.
Egress	Egress Member - specifies the port
	as being a static member of the
	multicast group. Egress Member
	Ports are ports that will be
	transmitting traffic for the multicast
	group.
Forbidden	Forbidden Non-Member - specifies
	the port as not being a member of
	the multicast group and that the port
	is forbidden from becoming a
	member of the multicast group
	dynamically.

Static Router Port Settings

A static router port is a port that has a multicast router attached to it. Generally, this router would have a connection to a WAN or to the Internet. Establishing a router port will allow multicast packets

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