Chapter 24 Multicast

Note: Your Switch automatically creates a static VLAN (with the same VID) when you create a multicast VLAN in this screen.

Figure 104 Advanced Application > Multicast > Multicast Setting > MVR

The following table describes the related labels in this screen.

Table 70 Advanced Application > Multicast > Multicast Setting > MVR

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Active

Select this check box to enable MVR to allow one single multicast VLAN to be shared

 

among different subscriber VLANs on the network.

 

 

Name

Enter a descriptive name (up to 32 printable ASCII characters) for identification purposes.

 

 

Multicast VLANEnter the VLAN ID (1 to 4094) of the multicast VLAN.

ID

 

 

 

802.1p Priority

Select a priority level (0-7) with which the Switch replaces the priority in outgoing IGMP

 

control packets (belonging to this multicast VLAN).

 

 

Mode

Specify the MVR mode on the Switch. Choices are Dynamic and Compatible.

 

Select Dynamic to send IGMP reports to all MVR source ports in the multicast VLAN.

 

Select Compatible to set the Switch not to send IGMP reports.

 

 

Port

This field displays the port number on the Switch.

 

 

*

Settings in this row apply to all ports.

 

Use this row only if you want to make some settings the same for all ports. Use this row

 

first to set the common settings and then make adjustments on a port-by-port basis.

 

Note: Changes in this row are copied to all the ports as soon as you make them.

 

 

 

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