Multicast filtering, Overview, Chapter 47 – Brocade 6910 Ethernet Access Switch Configuration Guide (Supporting R2.2.0.0) User Manual
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Multicast Filtering
In this chapter
This chapter describes how to configure the following multicast services:
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– Configures snooping and query parameters.
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– Filters specified multicast service, or throttling the maximum of
multicast groups allowed on an interface.
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Multicast VLAN Registration for IPv4
– Configures a single network-wide multicast VLAN shared
by hosts residing in other standard or private VLAN groups, preserving security and data
isolation.
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Multicast VLAN Registration for IPv6
– Configures a single network-wide multicast VLAN shared
by hosts residing in other standard or private VLAN groups, preserving security and data
isolation.
Overview
Multicasting is used to support real-time applications such as video conferencing or streaming
audio. A multicast server does not have to establish a separate connection with each client. It
merely broadcasts its service to the network, and any hosts that want to receive the multicast
register with their local multicast switch/router. Although this approach reduces the network
overhead required by a multicast server, the broadcast traffic must be carefully pruned at every
multicast switch/router it passes through to ensure that traffic is only passed on to the hosts which
subscribed to this service.
FIGURE 369
Multicast Filtering Concept
Unicast
Flow
Multicast
Flow