Chapter 22 Multicast

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

Figure 87 Advanced Application > Multicast > Multicast Setting > MVR

The following table describes the related labels in this screen.

Table 57 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 VLAN

Enter 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.

 

 

 

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