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zsnoopd

NAME

zsnoopd - IGMP Snooping daemon for the OpenArchitect switch.

SYNOPSIS

zsnoopd [-d <level>] [-f] [-h <hostname>] [-p <ppa>] [-r <sec>] [-t <sec>] [-u <sec>] [-v <vlan_id>]

DESCRIPTION

zsnoopd is run after the network interfaces are created and initialized with zconfig, and started with ifconfig(1M). zsnoopd starts a background task that monitors incoming IGMP traffic in order to learn which hosts in a VLAN are listening to which IP multicast addresses. zsnoopd updates the multicast table in silicon with this information, so that IP multicast traffic is forwarded only to the ports in a VLAN to which listening hosts are attached. This optimizes packet flow through the switch. Traffic on all VLANs is monitored by default. IGMP snooping can be restricted to specific VLANs using the –voption. The background task started by zsnoopd continues throughout the life of the Layer 2 network.

zsnoopd manages the switch multicast table. Based on monitored IGMP traffic, zsnoopd creates or updates an entry in the table. The key to each entry is a source Ethernet multicast address combined with a VLAN ID. Two port bitmaps are maintained: one that identifies the untagged members of the VLAN, and one which identifies which ports of the VLAN have listening hosts attached.

When the maximum number of entries in the table is reached, zsnoopd deletes a random entry prior to adding the next entry.

The Ethernet Switch Blade does not perform Multicast routing, but traffic from IP multicast addresses not found in the multicast table is forwarded to all ports within a VLAN. Traffic from reserved IP multicast addresses (224.0.0.X) is forwarded on all ports within a VLAN.

To operate correctly, traffic from unregistered IP multicast addresses should be forwarded on all ports in a VLAN. To do this, the multicast port filtering mode must be set to FORWARD_UNREGISTERED. See zconfig.

Neither zgmrpd nor zgvrpd can run concurrently with zsnoopd.

OPTIONS

-d <level> Sets the level of debugging output required by zsnoopd. The default level is zero (0). Setting the debug level higher produces more output. Four (4) is currently the maximum output level.

Ethernet Switch Blade User's Guide

release 3.2.2j

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