User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Cisco Nexus 3000 NX-OS Layer 2 Switching Configuration Guide, Release 5.0(3)U3(1)
- Contents
- Preface
- New and Changed Information for this Release
- Overview
- Configuring Ethernet Interfaces
- Information About Ethernet Interfaces
- Configuring Ethernet Interfaces
- Configuring the UDLD Mode
- Changing an Interface Port Mode
- Configuring Interface Speed
- Disabling Link Negotiation
- Configuring the CDP Characteristics
- Enabling or Disabling CDP
- Enabling the Error-Disabled Detection
- Enabling the Error-Disabled Recovery
- Configuring the Error-Disabled Recovery Interval
- Configuring the Debounce Timer
- Configuring the Description Parameter
- Disabling and Restarting Ethernet Interfaces
- Displaying Interface Information
- Displaying Input Packet Discard Information
- Default Physical Ethernet Settings
- Configuring VLANs
- Configuring Private VLANs
- Information About Private VLANs
- Guidelines and Limitations for Private VLANs
- Configuring a Private VLAN
- Enabling Private VLANs
- Configuring a VLAN as a Private VLAN
- Associating Secondary VLANs with a Primary Private VLAN
- Configuring an Interface as a Private VLAN Host Port
- Configuring an Interface as a Private VLAN Promiscuous Port
- Configuring a Promiscuous Trunk Port
- Configuring an Isolated Trunk Port
- Configuring the Allowed VLANs for PVLAN Trunking Ports
- Configuring Native 802.1Q VLANs on Private VLANs
- Verifying the Private VLAN Configuration
- Configuring Access and Trunk Interfaces
- Configuring Switching Modes
- Configuring Rapid PVST+
- Information About Rapid PVST+
- Understanding STP
- Understanding Rapid PVST+
- Rapid PVST+ and IEEE 802.1Q Trunks
- Rapid PVST+ Interoperation with Legacy 802.1D STP
- Rapid PVST+ Interoperation with 802.1s MST
- Configuring Rapid PVST+
- Enabling Rapid PVST+
- Enabling Rapid PVST+ per VLAN
- Configuring the Root Bridge ID
- Configuring a Secondary Root Bridge
- Configuring the Rapid PVST+ Port Priority
- Configuring the Rapid PVST+ Pathcost Method and Port Cost
- Configuring the Rapid PVST+ Bridge Priority of a VLAN
- Configuring the Rapid PVST+ Hello Time for a VLAN
- Configuring the Rapid PVST+ Forward Delay Time for a VLAN
- Configuring the Rapid PVST+ Maximum Age Time for a VLAN
- Specifying the Link Type
- Restarting the Protocol
- Verifying Rapid PVST+ Configurations
- Information About Rapid PVST+
- Configuring Multiple Spanning Tree
- Information About MST
- Configuring MST
- MST Configuration Guidelines
- Enabling MST
- Entering MST Configuration Mode
- Specifying the MST Name
- Specifying the MST Configuration Revision Number
- Specifying the Configuration on an MST Region
- Mapping and Unmapping VLANs to MST Instances
- Mapping Secondary VLANs to Same MSTI as Primary VLANs for Private VLANs
- Configuring the Root Bridge
- Configuring a Secondary Root Bridge
- Configuring the Port Priority
- Configuring the Port Cost
- Configuring the Switch Priority
- Configuring the Hello Time
- Configuring the Forwarding-Delay Time
- Configuring the Maximum-Aging Time
- Configuring the Maximum-Hop Count
- Configuring PVST Simulation Globally
- Configuring PVST Simulation Per Port
- Specifying the Link Type
- Restarting the Protocol
- Verifying MST Configurations
- Configuring STP Extensions
- About STP Extensions
- Information About STP Extensions
- Configuring STP Extensions
- STP Extensions Configuration Guidelines
- Configuring Spanning Tree Port Types Globally
- Configuring Spanning Tree Edge Ports on Specified Interfaces
- Configuring Spanning Tree Network Ports on Specified Interfaces
- Enabling BPDU Guard Globally
- Enabling BPDU Guard on Specified Interfaces
- Enabling BPDU Filtering Globally
- Enabling BPDU Filtering on Specified Interfaces
- Enabling Loop Guard Globally
- Enabling Loop Guard or Root Guard on Specified Interfaces
- Verifying STP Extension Configuration
- About STP Extensions
- Configuring LLDP
- Configuring the MAC Address Table
- Configuring IGMP Snooping
- Configuring Traffic Storm Control
- INDEX

The following figure shows an IGMP snooping switch that is located between the host and the IGMP router.
The IGMP snooping switch snoops the IGMP membership reports and leave messages and forwards them
only when necessary to the connected IGMP routers.
Figure 18: IGMP Snooping Switch
The switch supports IGMPv3 snooping based only on the destination multicast MAC address. It does not
support snooping based on the source MAC address or on proxy reports.
Note
The Cisco NX-OS IGMP snooping software supports optimized multicast flooding (OMF) that forwards
unknown traffic to routers only and performs no data driven state creation. For more information about IGMP
snooping, see http://tools.ietf.org/wg/magma/draft-ietf-magma-snoop/rfc4541.txt.
IGMPv1 and IGMPv2
Both IGMPv1 and IGMPv2 support membership report suppression, which means that if two hosts on the
same subnet want to receive multicast data for the same group, then the host that receives a member report
from the other host suppresses sending its report. Membership report suppression occurs for hosts that share
a port.
If no more than one host is attached to each VLAN switch port, then you can configure the fast leave feature
in IGMPv2. The fast leave feature does not send last member query messages to hosts. As soon as the software
receives an IGMP leave message, the software stops forwarding multicast data to that port.
IGMPv1 does not provide an explicit IGMP leave message, so the software must rely on the membership
message timeout to indicate that no hosts remain that want to receive multicast data for a particular group.
Cisco NX-OS ignores the configuration of last member query interval when you enable the fast leave
feature because it does not check for remaining hosts.
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Configuring IGMP Snooping
IGMPv1 and IGMPv2