Leaving A Multicast Group - Cisco 2950 - Catalyst Switch Configuration Manual

Understanding IGMP Snooping
Note that the switch hardware can distinguish IGMP information packets from other packets for the
multicast group.
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If another host (for example, Host 4) sends an unsolicited IGMP join message for the same group
(Figure
as shown in
the message is not flooded to other ports on the switch. Any known multicast traffic is forwarded to the
group and not to the CPU. Any unknown multicast traffic is flooded to the VLAN and sent to the CPU
until it becomes known.
Figure 21-2 Second Host Joining a Multicast Group
Forwarding
Table 21-2 Updated IGMP Snooping Forwarding Table
Destination Address
0100.5exx.xxxx
0100.5e01.0203

Leaving a Multicast Group

The router sends periodic multicast general queries and the switch forwards these queries through all
ports in the VLAN. Interested hosts respond to the queries. If at least one host in the VLAN wishes to
receive multicast traffic, the router continues forwarding the multicast traffic to the VLAN. The switch
forwards multicast group traffic to only those hosts listed in the forwarding table for that Layer 2
multicast group.
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The first entry in the table tells the switching engine to send IGMP packets to only the switch CPU.
This prevents the CPU from becoming overloaded with multicast frames.
The second entry tells the switching engine to send frames addressed to the 0x0100.5E01.0203
multicast MAC address that are not IGMP packets (!IGMP) to the router and to the host that has
joined the group.
21-2), the CPU receives that message and adds the port number of Host 4 to the forwarding table
Table 21-2. Note that because the forwarding table directs IGMP messages to only the CPU,
Router A
Switching engine
CPU
0
table
2 3
Host 1 Host 2
1
VLAN
4 5
Host 3 Host 4
Type of Packet Ports
IGMP 0
!IGMP 1, 2, 5
Chapter 21 Configuring IGMP Snooping and MVR
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