Forwarding and Filtering
IGMP Snooping
The switch support IP multicast, you can enable IGMP protocol on web management’s switch setting advanced page, then display the IGMP snooping information in this page, you can view difference multicast group VID and member port in here, IP multicast addresses range from 224.0.0.0 through 239.255.255.255.
The Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) is an internal protocol of the Internet Protocol (IP) suite. IP manages multicast traffic by using switches, routers, and hosts that support IGMP. Enabling IGMP allows the ports to detect IGMP queries and report packets and manage IP multicast traffic through the switch. IGMP have three fundamental types of message as follows:
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Query | A message sent from the querier (IGMP router or switch) asking for a | |
response from each host belonging to the multicast group. | ||
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| A message sent by a host to the querier to indicate that the host | |
Report | wants to be or is a member of a given group indicated in the report | |
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Leave | A message sent by a host to the querier to indicate that the host has | |
Group | quit to be a member of a specific multicast group. | |
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When you enable the IGMP Snooping, you will see the relate information show as following figure.
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