3Com 4500G Family Configuration Manual page 419

When receiving a membership report
A host sends an IGMP report to the IGMP querier in the following circumstances:
Upon receiving an IGMP query, a multicast group member host responds with an IGMP report.
When intended to join a multicast group, a host sends an IGMP report to the IGMP querier to
announce that it is interested in the multicast information addressed to that group.
Upon receiving an IGMP report, the switch forwards it through all the router ports in the VLAN, resolves
the address of the reported multicast group, and performs the following:
If no forwarding table entry exists for the reported group, the switch creates an entry, adds the port
as a dynamic member port to the outgoing port list, and starts a member port aging timer for that
port.
If a forwarding table entry exists for the reported group, but the port is not included in the outgoing
port list for that group, the switch adds the port as a dynamic member port to the outgoing port list,
and starts an aging timer for that port.
If a forwarding table entry exists for the reported group and the port is included in the outgoing port
list, which means that this port is already a dynamic member port, the switch resets the aging timer
for that port.
A switch does not forward an IGMP report through a non-router port. The reason is as follows: Due to
the IGMP report suppression mechanism, if the switch forwards a report message through a member
port, all the attached hosts listening to the reported multicast address will suppress their own reports
upon receiving this report, and this will prevent the switch from knowing whether the reported multicast
group still has active members attached to that port.
When receiving a leave message
When an IGMPv1 host leaves a multicast group, the host does not send an IGMP leave message, so
the switch cannot know immediately that the host has left the multicast group. However, as the host
stops sending IGMP reports as soon as it leaves a multicast group, the switch deletes the forwarding
entry for the dynamic member port corresponding to the host from the forwarding table when its aging
timer expires.
When an IGMPv2 or IGMPv3 host leaves a multicast group, the host sends an IGMP leave message to
the multicast router.
When the switch receives an IGMP leave message on a dynamic member port, the switch first checks
whether a forwarding table entry for the group address in the message exists, and, if one exists,
whether the outgoing port list contains the port.
If the forwarding table entry does not exist or if the outgoing port list does not contain the port, the
switch discards the IGMP leave message instead of forwarding it to any port.
If the forwarding table entry exists and the outgoing port list contains the port, the switch forwards
the leave message to all router ports in the native VLAN. Because the switch does not know
whether any other hosts attached to the port are still listening to that group address, the switch
does not immediately remove the port from the outgoing port list of the forwarding table entry for
that group; instead, it resets the aging timer for the port.
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