Chapter 21 Multicast
Figure 57 Multicast
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 49 Multicast
LABEL | DESCRIPTION |
IGMP Snooping |
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Active | Select Active to enable IGMP snooping to forward group multicast traffic only to |
| ports that are members of that group |
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Host Timeout | Specify the time (from 1 to 16,716,450) in seconds that elapses before the switch |
| removes an IGMP group membership entry if it does not receive report messages |
| from the host. |
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Leave | Enter an IGMP leave timeout value (from 1 to 16,716,450) in seconds. This |
Timeout | defines how many seconds the switch waits before removing an IGMP snooping |
| membership entry when an IGMP leave message is received from a host. |
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802.1p Priority | Select a priority level |
| IGMP control packets. Otherwise, select |
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IGMP Filtering | Select Active to enable IGMP filtering to limit the IGMP groups a subscriber on a |
| port can join. |
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Unknown | Specify the action to perform when the switch receives an unknown multicast |
Multicast Frame | frame. Select Drop to discard the frame(s). Select Flooding to send the frame(s) |
| to the destination device. |
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Port | This field displays the port number. |
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Immed. Leave | Select this option to set the switch to remove this port from the multicast tree when |
| an IGMP version 2 leave message is received on this port. |
| Select this option if there is only one host connected to this port. |
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Group Limited | Select this option to limit the number of multicast groups this port is allowed to join. |
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Max Group Num. | Select this option and enter a number to limit the number of multicast groups this |
| port is allowed to join. Once a port is registered in the specified number of |
| multicast groups, any new IGMP join report frame(s) is dropped on this port. |
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IGMP Filtering | Select the name of the IGMP filtering profile to use for this port. |
Profile |
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