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broadcast the multicast traffic to all the ports in a collision domain (a LAN), a switch using
IGMP snooping will only forward multicast traffic to the hosts interested in that traffic. This
reduction of multicast traffic reduces the packet processing at the switch (at the cost of
needing additional memory to handle the multicast tables) and also reduces the workload
at the end hosts since their network cards (or
operating system
) will not have to receive
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and filter all the multicast traffic generated in the network.
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