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receive this data through the use of queries and reports produced by the requesting ports and the source
of the multicast traffic.
MLD snooping is accomplished through the examination of the layer 3 part of an MLD control packet
transferred between end nodes and a MLD router. When the Switch discovers that this route is requesting
multicast traffic, it adds the port directly attached to it into the correct IPv6 multicast table, and begins the
process of forwarding multicast traffic to that port. This entry in the multicast routing table records the port,
the VLAN ID, and the associated multicast IPv6 multicast group address, and then considers this port to
be an active listening port. The active listening ports are the only ones to receive multicast group data.
MLD Control Messages
Three types of messages are transferred between devices using MLD snooping. These three messages
are all defined by four ICMPv6 packet headers, labeled 130, 131, 132, and 143.
1.
Multicast Listener Query
– Similar to the IGMPv2 Host Membership Query for IPv4, and labeled as
130 in the ICMPv6 packet header, this message is sent by the router to ask if any link is requesting
multicast data. There are two types of MLD query messages emitted by the router. The General
Query is used to advertise all multicast addresses that are ready to send multicast data to all
listening ports, and the Multicast Specific query, which advertises a specific multicast address that is
also ready. These two types of messages are distinguished by a multicast destination address
located in the IPv6 header and a multicast address in the Multicast Listener Query Message.
2.
Multicast Listener Report, Version 1
– Comparable to the Host Membership Report in IGMPv2,
and labeled as 131 in the ICMP packet header, this message is sent by the listening port to the
Switch stating that it is interested in receiving multicast data from a multicast address in response to
the Multicast Listener Query message.
3.
Multicast Listener Done
– Akin to the Leave Group Message in IGMPv2, and labeled as 132 in the
ICMPv6 packet header, this message is sent by the multicast listening port stating that it is no longer
interested in receiving multicast data from a specific multicast group address, therefore stating that it
is “done” with the multicast data from this address. Once this message is received by the Switch, it
will no longer forward multicast traffic from a specific multicast group address to this listening port.
4.
Multicast Listener Report, Version 2
- Comparable to the Host Membership Report in IGMPv3, and
labeled as 143 in the ICMP packet header, this message is sent by the listening port to the Switch
stating that it is interested in receiving multicast data from a multicast address in response to the
Multicast Listener Query message.
MLD Snooping Settings
This window is used to configure the MLD snooping settings.
To view the following window, click
L2 Features > L2 Multicast Control > MLD Snooping > MLD
Snooping Settings
, as shown below:
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