How To Use Igmp Snooping To Reduce Multicast Traffic Passing Through Your Switch - ZyXEL Communications GS1910 series User Manual

5.11 How to Use IGMP Snooping to Reduce Multicast
Traffic Passing through your Switch
The Switch can passively snoop on IGMP packets transferred between IP multicast routers/switches
and IP multicast hosts to learn the IP multicast group membership. It checks IGMP packets passing
through it, picks out the group registration information, and configures multicasting accordingly.
IGMP snooping allows the Switch to learn multicast groups without you having to manually
configure them.
The Switch forwards multicast traffic destined for multicast groups (that it has learned from IGMP
snooping or that you have manually configured) to ports that are members of that group. IGMP
snooping generates no additional network traffic, allowing you to significantly reduce multicast
traffic passing through your Switch.
The Switch can perform IGMP snooping on up to 32 VLANs. You can configure the Switch to
automatically learn multicast group membership of any VLANs.
Follow the steps below to enable IGMP snooping on the Switch and a specific VLAN. You also have
the Switch act as an IGMP proxy to report group changes to a connected multicast router (R).
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