Chapter 45 Multicast
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CHAPTER 45
Multicast
45.1 Multicast Overview
This chapter shows you how to configure various multicast features.
Traditionally, IP packets are transmitted in one of either two ways
– Unicast (one sender to one recipient)
or Broadcast (one sender to everybody on the network). Multicast delivers IP packets to just a group of
hosts on the network.
IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol) is a network-layer protocol used to establish membership
in a multicast group
– it is not used to carry user data. Refer to RFC 1112, RFC 2236 and RFC 3376 for
information on IGMP versions 1, 2 and 3 respectively.
45.1.1 What You Can Do – IPv4 Multicast
• Use the IPv4 Multicast Status screen (Section 45.2 on page 295) to view IPv4 multicast group
information.
• Use the IGMP Snooping screen (Section 45.3 on page 296) to enable IGMP snooping to forward group
multicast traffic only to ports that are members of that group.
• Use the IGMP Snooping VLAN screen (Section 45.4 on page 300) to perform IGMP snooping on VLANs.
• Use the IGMP Filtering Profile (Section 45.5 on page 302) to specify a range of multicast groups that
clients connected to the Switch are able to join.
45.1.2 What You Can Do – IPv6 Multicast
• Use the IPv6 Multicast Status screen (Section 45.6 on page 304) to view IPv6 multicast group
information.
• Use the MLD Snooping-proxy screen (Section 45.7 on page 305) to enable the upstream port to report
group changes to a connected multicast router and forward MLD messages to other upstream ports.
• Use the MLD Snooping-proxy VLAN screen (Section 45.8 on page 305) to enable and configure MLD
snooping-proxy settings on the VLANs you specified.
• Use the MLD Snooping-proxy Port Role Setting screen (Section 45.9 on page 308) to assign MLD
snooping-proxy port roles and configure Leave settings for each port.
• Use the MLD Snooping-proxy Filtering screen (Section 45.10 on page 309) to enable and configure
MLD snooping-proxy filtering.
• Use the MLD Snooping-proxy Filtering Profile screen (Section 45.11 on page 311) to create/edit MLD
snooping-proxy filtering profiles.
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