
IES-1248-51V Support Notes
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Setting up the IGMP Snooping/IGMP Filtering
Without IGMP snooping multicast traffic is treated in the same manner as broadcast
traffic, that is, it is forwarded to all port. With IGMP snooping, multicast traffic of a
group is only forwarded to ports that have members of that group. IGMP snooping
generates no additional network traffic, allowing you to significantly reduce multicast
traffic passing through the IP-DSLAM. IGMP filtering is for allowing a port to join
some specific IGMP groups. This can be applied in Video service providers. They can
only open some specific channels (groups) to specific ports.
CPE
Video
Server
Internet
Ethernet Port
IGMP
Router
Port 1
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