Chapter 23 Multicast

23.3 Multicast Setting

Click Advanced Applications > Multicast > Multicast Setting link to display the screen as shown. See Section 23.1 on page 191 for more information on multicasting.

Figure 101 Advanced Application > Multicast > Multicast Setting

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 54 Advanced Application > Multicast > Multicast Setting

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

IGMP Snooping

Use 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.

 

 

 

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