Chapter 14 IGMP

14.2 The IGMP General Screen

Use the IGMP General screen to configure general IGMP proxy and IGMP packet processing settings.

Click Network Settings > IGMP Setting > General to open the following screen.

Figure 81 Network Settings > IGMP Setting > General

The following table describes the fields in this screen.

Table 56 Network Settings > IGMP Setting > General

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

IGMP Proxy

Enable this to have the ZyXEL Device reduce multicast traffic by

 

issuing IGMP host messages to a multicast router or server on behalf

 

of the multicast hosts connected to the IGMP proxy device.

 

 

Query Interval

Specify how many seconds since the last query the ZyXEL Device waits

 

before it queries all directly connected networks to gather multicast

 

group membership.

 

 

Query Response

Specify how many seconds the host allots for gathering membership

Interval

information from directly connected networks before it sends a report.

 

 

Robustness

This is the number of times the host sends a report to the ZyXEL

Value

Device when the ZyXEL Device queries for the host’s status.

 

 

IGMP Packet

Select one or more of these fields to increase the IGMP network’s

Process

security or control which types of IGMP packets the ZyXEL Device

 

forwards.

 

 

Ignore IGMP

Select this to discard IGMP packets from IP addresses other than the

packets not from

LAN subnet.

LAN subnet

 

 

 

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