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3-7. IGMP Snooping
The IGMP Snooping function is used to establish multicast groups to forward
multicast packets only to the multicast group member ports, thus avoiding wasting
bandwidth by sending packets to ports that are not part of that multicast group. A
switch that does not support IGMP or IGMP Snooping can not tell multicast packets
from broadcast packets, so it can only treat them all as broadcast packets. Without
IGMP Snooping, the multicast packet forwarding function is essentially that used by
broadcast packets.
This switch supports IGMP Snooping with the functions of query, report and
leave, using a type of packet exchanged between an IP Multicast Router/Switch and
an IP Multicast Host that can update the information of the Multicast table when a
member (port) joins or leaves an IP Multicast Destination Address. With this function,
once a switch receives an IP multicast packet, it will forward the packet to the
members who joined in a specified IP multicast group before.
Fig. 3-22
Function name:
IGMP Snooping
Function description:
IGMP is used to snoop the status of IP multicast groups and display its
associated information in both tagged VLAN and non-tagged VLAN networks.
Enabling IGMP with either the passive or active mode, you can monitor the
IGMP snooping information, which contains the multicast member list with the
multicast groups, VID and member ports.