User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- User’s Guide
- Introduction and Hardware
- Basic Configuration
- Advanced
- VLAN
- Static MAC Forward Setup
- Filtering
- Spanning Tree Protocol
- 11.1 STP/RSTP Overview
- 11.1.1 STP Terminology
- 11.1.2 How STP Works
- 11.1.3 STP Port States
- 11.1.4 Multiple RSTP
- 11.2 Spanning Tree Protocol Main Screen
- 11.3 Configure Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
- 11.4 Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol Status
- 11.5 Configure Multiple Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
- 11.6 Multiple Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol Status
- Bandwidth Control
- Broadcast Storm Control
- Mirroring
- Link Aggregation
- Port Authentication
- Port Security
- Classifier
- Policy Rule
- Queuing Method
- VLAN Stacking
- Multicast
- 22.1 Multicast Overview
- 22.1.1 IP Multicast Addresses
- 22.1.2 IGMP Filtering
- 22.1.3 IGMP Snooping
- 22.2 Multicast Status
- 22.3 Multicast Setting
- 22.4 IGMP Filtering Profile
- 22.5 MVR Overview
- 22.5.1 Types of MVR Ports
- 22.5.2 MVR Modes
- 22.5.3 How MVR Works
- 22.6 General MVR Configuration
- 22.7 MVR Group Configuration
- 22.7.1 MVR Configuration Example
- IP Application
- Management
- Maintenance
- 28.1 The Maintenance Screen
- 28.2 Firmware Upgrade
- 28.3 Restore a Configuration File
- 28.4 Backup a Configuration File
- 28.5 Load Factory Default
- 28.6 Save Configuration
- 28.7 Reboot System
- 28.8 FTP Command Line
- 28.8.1 Filename Conventions
- 28.8.2 FTP Command Line Procedure
- 28.8.3 GUI-based FTP Clients
- 28.8.4 FTP Restrictions
- Access Control
- 29.1 Access Control Overview
- 29.2 The Access Control Main Screen
- 29.3 About SNMP
- 29.3.1 Supported MIBs
- 29.3.2 SNMP Traps
- 29.3.3 Configuring SNMP
- 29.4 SSH Overview
- 29.5 How SSH works
- 29.6 SSH Implementation on the Switch
- 29.6.1 Requirements for Using SSH
- 29.7 Introduction to HTTPS
- 29.8 HTTPS Example
- 29.8.1 Internet Explorer Warning Messages
- 29.8.2 Netscape Navigator Warning Messages
- 29.8.3 The Main Screen
- 29.9 Service Port Access Control
- 29.10 Remote Management
- Diagnostic
- Syslog
- Cluster Management
- MAC Table
- IP Table
- ARP Table
- Routing Table
- Configure Clone
- Maintenance
- CLI and Troubleshooting
- Introducing Commands
- 38.1 Overview
- 38.2 Accessing the CLI
- 38.2.1 The Console Port
- 38.3 The Login Screen
- 38.4 Command Syntax Conventions
- 38.5 Changing the Password
- 38.6 Privilege Levels
- 38.7 Command Modes
- 38.8 Getting Help
- 38.8.1 List of Available Commands
- 38.9 Using Command History
- 38.10 Saving Your Configuration
- 38.10.1 Configuration File
- 38.10.2 Logging Out
- 38.11 Command Summary
- 38.11.1 User Mode
- 38.11.2 Enable Mode
- 38.11.3 General Configuration Mode
- 38.11.4 interface port-channel Commands
- 38.11.5 interface route-domain Commands
- 38.11.6 config-vlan Commands
- 38.12 mvr Commands
- User and Enable Mode Commands
- 39.1 Overview
- 39.2 show Commands
- 39.2.1 show system-information
- 39.2.2 show ip
- 39.2.3 show logging
- 39.2.4 show interface
- 39.2.5 show mac address-table
- 39.3 ping
- 39.4 traceroute
- 39.5 Copy Port Attributes
- 39.6 Configuration File Maintenance
- 39.6.1 Using a Different Configuration File
- 39.6.2 Resetting to the Factory Default
- Configuration Mode Commands
- 40.1 Change the Out of Band Management IP Address
- 40.2 Enabling IGMP Snooping
- 40.3 Configure IGMP Filter
- 40.4 Enabling STP
- 40.5 no Command Examples
- 40.5.1 Disable Commands
- 40.5.2 Resetting Commands
- 40.5.3 Re-enable commands
- 40.5.4 Other Examples of no Commands
- 40.6 Static Route Commands
- 40.7 Enabling MAC Filtering
- 40.8 Enabling Trunking
- 40.9 Enabling Port Authentication
- 40.9.1 RADIUS Server Settings
- 40.9.2 Port Authentication Settings
- Interface Commands
- 41.1 Overview
- 41.2 Interface Command Examples
- 41.2.1 interface port-channel
- 41.2.2 bpdu-control
- 41.2.3 broadcast-limit
- 41.2.4 bandwidth-limit
- 41.2.5 mirror
- 41.2.6 gvrp
- 41.2.7 ingress-check
- 41.2.8 frame-type
- 41.2.9 weight
- 41.2.10 egress set
- 41.2.11 qos priority
- 41.2.12 name
- 41.2.13 speed-duplex
- 41.2.14 test
- 41.3 Interface no Command Examples
- 41.3.1 no bandwidth-limit
- IEEE 802.1Q Tagged VLAN Commands
- 42.1 Configuring Tagged VLAN
- 42.2 Global VLAN1Q Tagged VLAN Configuration Commands
- 42.2.1 GARP Status
- 42.2.2 GARP Timer
- 42.2.3 GVRP Timer
- 42.2.4 Enable GVRP
- 42.2.5 Disable GVRP
- 42.3 Port VLAN Commands
- 42.3.1 Set Port VID
- 42.3.2 Set Acceptable Frame Type
- 42.3.3 Enable or Disable Port GVRP
- 42.3.4 Modify Static VLAN
- 42.3.5 Delete VLAN ID
- 42.4 Enable VLAN
- 42.5 Disable VLAN
- 42.6 Show VLAN Setting
- Multicast VLAN Registration Commands
- Routing Domain Command Examples
- Troubleshooting
- Introducing Commands
- Appendices and Index

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CHAPTER 22
Multicast
This chapter shows you how to configure various multicast features.
22.1 Multicast Overview
Traditionally, IP packets are transmitted in one of either two ways-Unicast (1 sender to 1
recipient) or Broadcast (1 sender to everybody on the network). Multicast delivers IP packets
to just a group of hosts on the network.
IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol) is a network-layer protocol used to establish
membership in a multicast group-it is not used to carry user data. Refer to RFC 1112 and RFC
2236 for information on IGMP versions 1 and 2 respectively.
22.1.1 IP Multicast Addresses
In IPv4, a multicast address allows a device to send packets to a specific group of hosts
(multicast group) in a different subnetwork. A multicast IP address represents a traffic
receiving group, not individual receiving devices. IP addresses in the Class D range (224.0.0.0
to 239.255.255.255) are used for IP multicasting. Certain IP multicast numbers are reserved by
IANA for special purposes (see the IANA web site for more information).
22.1.2 IGMP Filtering
With the IGMP filtering feature, you can control which IGMP groups a subscriber on a port
can join. This allows you to control the distribution of multicast services (such as content
information distribution) based on service plans and types of subscription.
You can set the Switch to filter the multicast group join reports on a per-port basis by
configuring an IGMP filtering profile and associating the profile to a port.
22.1.3 IGMP Snooping
A switch can passively snoop on IGMP Query, Report and Leave (IGMP version 2) 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.