Chapter 20 Configuring Igmp Snooping And Mvr - Cisco Catalyst 3550 series Software Configuration Manual

Understanding IGMP Snooping
the switch adds the host port number to the forwarding table entry; when it receives an IGMP Leave
Group message from a host, it removes the host port from the table entry. It also periodically deletes
entries if it does not receive IGMP membership reports from the multicast clients.
Note For more information on IP multicast and IGMP, refer to RFC 1112 and RFC 2236.
The multicast router (which could be a Catalyst 3550 switch with the enhanced multilayer software
image) sends out periodic general queries to all VLANs. All hosts interested in this multicast traffic send
join requests and are added to the forwarding table entry. The switch forwards only one join request per
IP multicast group to the multicast router. It creates one entry per VLAN in the Layer 2 forwarding table
for each MAC group from which it receives an IGMP join request.
Layer 2 multicast groups learned through IGMP snooping are dynamic. However, you can statically
configure MAC multicast groups by using the ip igmp snooping vlan static global configuration
command. If you specify group membership for a multicast group address statically, your setting
supersedes any automatic manipulation by IGMP snooping. Multicast group membership lists can
consist of both user-defined and IGMP snooping-learned settings.
If a port spanning-tree, a port group, or a VLAN ID change occurs, the IGMP snooping-learned multicast
groups from this port on the VLAN are deleted.
These sections describe characteristics of IGMP snooping on the switch:
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IGMP Versions
The switch supports IGMP version 1, IGMP version 2, and IGMP version 3. These versions are
interoperable on the switch. For example, if IGMP snooping is enabled on an IGMPv2 switch and the
switch receives an IGMPv3 report from a host, the switch can forward the IGMPv3 report to the
multicast router.
Note The switches support IGMPv3 snooping based only on the destination multicast MAC address. They do
not support snooping based on the source MAC address or on proxy reports.
An IGMPv3 switch supports Basic IGMPv3 Snooping Support (BISS), which includes support for the
snooping features on IGMPv1 and IGMPv2 switches and for IGMPv3 membership report messages.
BISS constrains the flooding of multicast traffic when your network includes IGMPv3 hosts. It
constrains traffic to approximately the same set of ports as the IGMP snooping feature on IGMPv2 or
IGMPv1 hosts.
IGMPv3 join and leave messages are not supported on switches running IGMP filtering or MVR.
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Catalyst 3550 Multilayer Switch Software Configuration Guide
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IGMP Versions, page 20-2
Joining a Multicast Group, page 20-3
Leaving a Multicast Group, page 20-4
Immediate-Leave Processing, page 20-5
IGMP Report Suppression, page 20-5
Source-Only Networks, page 20-5
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