Multicast traffic conserves network resources. If one device were to send a single stream of data to
multiple other devices on the network, it would take many times the amount of bandwidth. Multicast
traffic reduces the load on the transmitting device by duplicating the traffic instead.
However, the switches in the system must be configured to handle multicast traffic or the network can
become flooded with this traffic. Without a solution in place, this traffic will be sent to every port - often
bringing the network down. Use the following methods to prevent this from happening.
Note: This method is deprecated and will be removed in future firmware versions!
On systems prior to version 6.48:
Select the Interfaces option from the left toolbar. Select the Interface List tab. Enable the MAC Filter for
each port that will receive multicast traffic and ONLY the ports that will receive multicast traffic.
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