Internet Group Management Protocol (Igmp); Igmp Implementation Information; Igmp Protocol Overview; Igmp Version 2 - Dell S6100 Configuration Manual

Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)

Internet group management protocol (IGMP) is a Layer 3 multicast protocol that hosts use to join or leave a multicast group.
Multicast is premised on identifying many hosts by a single destination IP address; hosts represented by the same IP address are a multicast
group. Multicast routing protocols (such as protocol-independent multicast [PIM]) use the information in IGMP messages to discover
which groups are active and to populate the multicast routing table.

IGMP Implementation Information

• Dell Networking Operating System (OS) supports IGMP versions 1, 2, and 3 based on RFCs 1112, 2236, and 3376, respectively.
• Dell Networking OS does not support IGMP version 3 and versions 1 or 2 on the same subnet.
• IGMP on Dell Networking OS supports an unlimited number of groups.
• Dell Networking systems cannot serve as an IGMP host or an IGMP version 1 IGMP Querier.
• Dell Networking OS automatically enables IGMP on interfaces on which you enable a multicast routing protocol.
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IGMP Protocol Overview

• Configure IGMP
• Viewing IGMP Enabled Interfaces
• Selecting an IGMP Version
• Viewing IGMP Groups
• Adjusting Timers
• Enabling IGMP Immediate-Leave
• IGMP Snooping
• Fast Convergence after MSTP Topology Changes
• Egress Interface Selection (EIS) for HTTP and IGMP Applications
• Designating a Multicast Router Interface
IGMP Protocol Overview
IGMP has three versions. Version 3 obsoletes and is backwards-compatible with version 2; version 2 obsoletes version 1.

IGMP Version 2

IGMP version 2 improves on version 1 by specifying IGMP Leave messages, which allows hosts to notify routers that they no longer care
about traffic for a particular group.
Leave messages reduce the amount of time that the router takes to stop forwarding traffic for a group to a subnet (leave latency) after the
last host leaves the group. In version 1 hosts quietly leave groups, and the router waits for a query response timer several times the value of
the query interval to expire before it stops forwarding traffic.
To receive multicast traffic from a particular source, a host must join the multicast group to which the source is sending traffic. A host that
is a member of a group is called a receiver. A host may join many groups, and may join or leave any group at any time. A host joins and
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