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CONFIGURING THE SWITCH

You can use the Multicast Router Port Information page to display the ports on this switch attached to a neighboring multicast router/switch for each VLAN ID.

Command Attributes

•VLAN ID – ID of configured VLAN (1-4094).

•Multicast Router List – Multicast routers dynamically discovered by this switch or those that are statically assigned to an interface on this switch.

Web – Click IGMP Snooping, Multicast Router Port Information. Select the required VLAN ID from the scroll-down list to display the associated multicast routers.

CLI – This example shows that Port 11 has been statically configured as a port attached to a multicast router.

Console#show		ip igmp snooping mrouter vlan 13-106
VLAN	M'cast	Router	Port	Type
----	------------------			-------
1		Eth	1/11	Static

Specifying Static Interfaces for a Multicast Router

Depending on your network connections, IGMP snooping may not always be able to locate the IGMP querier. Therefore, if the IGMP querier is a known multicast router/ switch connected over the network to an

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SMC8612XL3 F 1.0.1.3 specifications

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