Mld Queries; Multicast Client Aging Robustness; Multicast Router Discovery - Cisco WS-C3020 Software Configuration Manual

Chapter 36 Configuring IPv6 MLD Snooping

MLD Queries

The switch sends out MLD queries, constructs an IPv6 multicast address database, and generates MLD
group-specific and MLD group-and-source-specific queries in response to MLD Done messages. The
switch also supports report suppression, report proxying, Immediate-Leave functionality, and static IPv6
multicast MAC-address configuration.
When MLD snooping is disabled, all MLD queries are flooded in the ingress VLAN.
When MLD snooping is enabled, received MLD queries are flooded in the ingress VLAN, and a copy of
the query is sent to the CPU for processing. From the received query, MLD snooping builds the IPv6
multicast address database. It detects multicast router ports, maintains timers, sets report response time,
learns the querier IP source address for the VLAN, learns the querier port in the VLAN, and maintains
multicast-address aging.
When the IPv6 multicast router is a Catalyst switch and you are using extended VLANs (in the range
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1006 to 4094), IPv6 MLD snooping must be enabled on the extended VLAN on the IPv6 multicast router
in order for the switch to receive queries on the VLAN. For normal-range VLANs (1 to 1005), it is not
necessary to enable IPv6 MLD snooping on the VLAN on the IPv6 multicast router.
When a group exists in the MLD snooping database, the switch responds to a group-specific query by
sending an MLDv1 report. When the group is unknown, the group-specific query is flooded to the
ingress VLAN.
When a host wants to leave a multicast group, it can send out an MLD Done message (equivalent to
IGMP Leave message). When the switch receives an MLDv1 Done message, if Immediate- Leave is not
enabled, the switch sends an MASQ to the port from which the message was received to determine if
other devices connected to the port should remain in the multicast group.

Multicast Client Aging Robustness

You can configure port membership removal from addresses based on the number of queries. A port is
removed from membership to an address only when there are no reports to the address on the port for
the configured number of queries. The default number is 2.

Multicast Router Discovery

Like IGMP snooping, MLD snooping performs multicast router discovery, with these characteristics:
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Ports configured by a user never age out.
Dynamic port learning results from MLDv1 snooping queries and IPv6 PIMv2 packets.
If there are multiple routers on the same Layer 2 interface, MLD snooping tracks a single multicast
router on the port (the router that most recently sent a router control packet).
Dynamic multicast router port aging is based on a default timer of 5 minutes; the multicast router is
deleted from the router port list if no control packet is received on the port for 5 minutes.
IPv6 multicast router discovery only takes place when MLD snooping is enabled on the switch.
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