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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:



Message


Query




Report



Leave

Group



Description

A message sent from the querier (IGMP router or switch)

asking for a response from each host belonging to the

multicast group.

A message sent by a host to the querier to indicate that the

host wants to be or is a member of a given group indicated in

the report message.

A message sent by a host to the querier to indicate that the

host has quit being a member of a specific multicast group.





The switch supports IP multicast. You can enable IGMP protocol via setting
IGMP

configuration page to see the IGMP snooping information. IP multicast addresses are in

the range of 224.0.0.0 through 239.255.255.255.


¢

IGMP Protocol: Enable or disable the IGMP protocol.

¢

IGMP Query: Select the IGMP query function as Enable or Auto to set the switch as

a querier for IGMP version 2 multicast networks.

¢ Click

Apply

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