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IES-1000 User’s Guide

Chapter 9

Bridge Commands

This chapter discusses the bridge subsystem. It allows you to configure and monitor the bridging, configure MAC filters, port-based VLANs and tagged frame functions of the IES-1000.

The IES-1000 supports IEEE 802.1D transparent bridging; but not the static filtering feature or spanning tree protocol. The bridge learns the source MAC addresses of sender hosts by inspecting incoming Ethernet frames and recording the learned MAC addresses with their incoming port numbers into its filtering database. Based on the database, the bridge forwards each incoming frame to its destination port.

9.1IGMP Snooping

Traditionally, IP packets are transmitted in one of either two ways - Unicast (1 sender to 1 recipient) or Broadcast (1 sender to everybody on the network). Multicast delivers IP packets to just a group of hosts on the network.

IGMP (Internet Group Multicast Protocol) is a session-layer protocol used to establish membership in a multicast group - it is not used to carry user data. Refer to RFC 1112 and RFC 2236 for information on IGMP versions 1 and 2 respectively.

A layer-2 switch can passively snoop on IGMP Query, Report and Leave (IGMP version 2) packets transferred between IP multicast routers/switches and IP multicast hosts to learn the IP multicast group membership. It checks IGMP packets passing through it, picks out the group registration information, and configures multicasting accordingly.

Without IGMP snooping, multicast traffic is treated in the same manner as broadcast traffic, that is, it is forwarded to all ports. With IGMP snooping, group multicast traffic is only forwarded to ports that are members of that group. IGMP Snooping generates no additional network traffic, allowing you to significantly reduce multicast traffic passing through your switch.

9.2Bridge Port Numbers

The bridge subsystem of the IES-1000 defines its own numbering convention for ports.

The bridge has a total of nine ports: bridge port 1 stands for the Ethernet port, bridge port 2

stands for DSL port 1, bridge port 3 stands for DSL port 2, and so on.

Be sure you have clarified the relation between bridge ports and DSL ports.

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