Designating A Multicast Router Interface - Dell S4820T Configuration Manual

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VLT feature is for the front-end port only. Because this feature is specific to the management port, this

feature can coexist with VLT and nothing specific needs to be done in this feature to handle VLT scenario.

If DHCP Client is enabled on the management port, a management default route is installed to the

If management EIS is enabled, this default route is added to the management EIS routing table and the

default routing table.

ARP learn enable

When ARP learn enable is enabled, the switch learns ARP entries for ARP Request packets even if the

packet is not destined to an IP configured in the box.

The ARP learn enable feature is not applicable to the EIS routing table. It is applicable to the default

routing table only to avoid unnecessary double ARP entries

sFlow management application is supported only in standalone boxes and switch shall throw error

message if sFlow is configured in stacking environment

Designating a Multicast Router Interface

To designate an interface as a multicast router interface, use the following command.

Dell Networking OS also has the capability of listening in on the incoming IGMP general queries and

designate those interfaces as the multicast router interface when the frames have a non-zero IP source

address. All IGMP control packets and IP multicast data traffic originating from receivers is forwarded to

multicast router interfaces.

Designate an interface as a multicast router interface.

ip igmp snooping mrouter interface

Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)