Chapter 24 Multicast

24.3 Multicast Setting

Click Advanced Applications > Multicast > Multicast Setting link to display the screen as shown. See Section 24.1 on page 187 for more information on multicasting.

Figure 99 Advanced Application > Multicast > Multicast Setting

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 67 Advanced Application > Multicast > Multicast Setting

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

IGMP SnoopingUse these settings to configure IGMP Snooping.

 

 

Active

Select Active to enable IGMP Snooping to forward group multicast traffic only to ports

 

that are members of that group.

 

 

Querier

Select this option to allow the Switch to send IGMP General Query messages to the VLANs

 

with the multicast hosts attached.

 

 

Host Timeout

Specify the time (from 1 to 16 711 450) in seconds that elapses before the Switch

 

removes an IGMP group membership entry if it does not receive report messages from

 

the port.

 

 

802.1p Priority

Select a priority level (0-7) to which the Switch changes the priority in outgoing IGMP

 

control packets. Otherwise, select No-Changeto not replace the priority.

 

 

IGMP Filtering

Select Active to enable IGMP filtering to control which IGMP groups a subscriber on a

 

port can join.

 

Note: If you enable IGMP filtering, you must create and assign IGMP filtering profiles for the

 

ports that you want to allow to join multicast groups.

 

 

 

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