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Milan Technology MIL-SME801P User Manual

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5-4-6. Forwarding and Filtering

5-4-6-1. IGMP Snooping

The switch supports IP multicasting. You can enable IGMP via the web

management’s configuration screen. In addition, you can view different

multicast groups, VIDs and member ports, and IP multicast addresses that

range from 224.0.0.0 through 239.255.255.255.

The Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) is an internal protocol of

the Internet Protocol (IP) suite. IP manages multicast traffic by using

switches, routers, and hosts that support IGMP. Enabling IGMP allows the

ports to detect IGMP queries and report packets and manage IP multicast

traffic through the switch.