Surecom 824DXFS2B User Manual page 9

IGMP Snooping
Listening to IGMP Query and IGMP Report
and IP Multicast host groups
Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)
A protocol through which hosts can register with their local router for multicast services. If there
is more than one multicast router on a given subnetwork, one of the routers is made the
and assumes responsibility for keeping track of
packets transferred between IP Multicast Routers
to identify IP Multicast group members.
group membership.
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"querier"