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4-6-1. igmp snooping – Lobos Tech LB-FEA800M User Manual

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5-4-6. Filter Database

5-4-6-1. IGMP Snooping

The 8TP+1Fiber Management Switch support IP multicast , you can

enable IGMP protocol on web management’s switch setting advanced

page, then display the IGMP snooping information in this page, you can

view difference multicast group ,VID and member port in here, IP

multicast addresses 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.

IGMP have three fundamental types of message as follows: