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Chapter 17 Multicast Configuration

17.2 Multicast Settings

To configure multicast settings, click Configuration > Multicast Configuration to display
the configuration screen.

Figure 106 Multicast Configuration: Multicast Settings

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 80 Multicast Configuration: Multicast Settings

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

IGMP Snooping

Select Active to enable IGMP snooping to forward group multicast traffic only to

ports that are members of that group

IGMP Filtering

Select Active to enable IGMP filtering to control which IGMP groups a subscriber

on a port can join.

Unknown

Multicast Frame

Specify the action to perform when the switch receives an unknown multicast

frame. Select Drop to discard the frame(s). Select Flooding to send the frame(s)

to all ports.

Port

This field displays the port number.

Immed. Leave/

Group Limited

This field displays whether the switch is set to remove this port from the multicast

tree when an IGMP version 2 leave message is received on this port.
This field also displays whether the port is set to join a limited number of groups.

Max Group Num.

This field displays number of multicast groups this port is allowed to join. Once a

port is registered in the specified number of multicast groups, any new IGMP join

report frame(s) is dropped on this port.

IGMP Filtering

Profile

This field displays the name of the IGMP filtering profile this port uses.
The default profile (Default) prohibits the port from joining any multicast group.