Ip igmp snooping vlan proxy-address, Ip igmp snooping vlan, Proxy-address – Microsens MS453490M Management Guide User Manual

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IGMP Snooping

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messages is not required and may be disabled using the no ip igmp

snooping vlan mrd command.

This command may also be used to disable multicast router solicitation

messages when the upstream router does not support MRD, to reduce

the loading on a busy upstream router, or when IGMP snooping is

disabled in a VLAN.

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This example disables sending of multicast router solicitation messages on

VLAN 1.

Console(config)#no ip igmp snooping vlan 1 mrd

Console(config)#

ip igmp snooping

vlan proxy-address

This command configures a static source address for locally generated

query and report messages used by IGMP proxy reporting. Use the no form

to restore the default source address.

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[no] ip igmp snooping vlan vlan-id proxy-address source-address

vlan-id - VLAN ID (Range: 1-4093)
source-address - The source address used for proxied IGMP query

and report, and leave messages. (Any valid IP unicast address)

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IGMP Snooping uses a null IP address of 0.0.0.0 for the source of IGMP

query messages which are proxied to downstream hosts to indicate that it

is not the elected querier, but is only proxying these messages as defined

in RFC 4541. The switch also uses a null address in IGMP reports sent to

upstream ports.

Many hosts do not implement RFC 4541, and therefore do not understand

query messages with the source address of 0.0.0.0. These hosts will

therefore not reply to the queries, causing the multicast router to stop

sending traffic to them.

To resolve this problem, the source address in proxied IGMP query and

report messages can be replaced with any valid unicast address (other

than the router's own address) using this command.

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