
Chapter 4: Web configuration
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industrial managed switch. First, add all the ports attached to participating hosts to a
common VLAN, and then assign the multicast service to that VLAN group.
• Static multicast addresses are never aged out.
• When a multicast address is assigned to an interface in a specific VLAN, the
corresponding traffic can only be forwarded to ports within that VLAN.
The page includes the following fields:
Object
Description
VLAN ID
Select the VLAN ID from this drop-down menu.
Group IP Address
The IP address for a specific multicast service.
Member Ports
Select a port number from this drop-down menu.
Buttons
• Click
Add
to add an IGMP router port entry.
• Click
Edit
to edit parameters.
IGMP router setting
Depending on your network connections, IGMP snooping may not always be able to
locate the IGMP querier. Therefore, if the IGMP querier is a known multicast router/
switch connected over the network to an interface (port or trunk) on the switch, you can
manually configure the interface (and a specified VLAN) to join all the current multicast
groups supported by the attached router. This can ensure that multicast traffic is
passed to all the appropriate interfaces within the industrial managed switch.
The page includes the following fields:
Object
Description
VLAN ID
Selects the VLAN to propagate all multicast traffic coming from the attached