Port Gvrp Settings; Multicasting; Igmp Snooping - IBM BladeCenter Installation And User Manual

Port GVRP Settings

Complete the following steps to display the Port GVRP Settings window:
1. Select VLANs from the Configuration menu (see "Configuration" on page 34).
2. Select 802.1Q Port Settings from the VLANs menu.
3. Select Port GVRP Settings from the 802.1Q Port Settings window.
A window similar to the following opens:
GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP) is a Generic Attribute Registration
Protocol (GARP) application that provides 802.1Q-compliant VLAN pruning and
dynamic VLAN creation on 802.1Q trunk ports. With GVRP, the switch can
exchange VLAN configuration information with other GVRP switches, prune
unnecessary broadcast and unknown unicast traffic, and dynamically create and
manage VLANs on switches connected through 802.1Q trunk ports.
Once you enable the desired port, click Apply to make your changes effective.

Multicasting

Multicasting is described in the following sections.

IGMP Snooping

To access the IGMP Snooping window, select IGMP Snooping from the
Multicasting menu. IGMP Snooping can be globally enabled or disabled from the
IGMP Snooping window.
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