CONFIGURING THE SWITCH

Notes: 1. All systems on the subnet must support the same version.

2.Some attributes are only enabled for IGMPv2, including IGMP Report Delay and IGMP Query Timeout.

Web – Click IGMP Snooping, IGMP Configuration. Adjust the IGMP settings as required, and then click Apply. (The default settings are shown below.)

Figure 3-82 IGMP Configuration

CLI – This example modifies the settings for multicast filtering, and then displays the current status.

Console(config)#ip igmp snooping

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Console(config)#ip igmp snooping querier

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Console(config)#ip igmp snooping query-count 10

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Console(config)#ip igmp snooping query-interval 100

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Console(config)#ip igmp snooping query-max-response-time 20

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Console(config)#ip igmp snooping query-time-out 300

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Console(config)#ip igmp snooping version 2

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Console(config)#exit

 

 

 

Console#show ip igmp snooping

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Service status

: Enabled

 

Querier status

: Enabled

 

Query count

:

10

 

Query interval

:

100 sec

 

Query max response time :

20 sec

 

Router port expire time :

300 sec

 

IGMP snooping version

: Version 2

 

Console#

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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TigerSwitch specifications

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