LevelOne GES-1651 User Manual

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Multicast VLAN:

Select Enable/Disable Multicast VLAN feature.

VLAN ID:

Enter the VLAN ID of the multicast VLAN.

Router Port Time:

Specify the aging time of the router port. Within this time, if the
switch doesn

’t receive IGMP query message from the router port,

it will consider this port is not a router port any more.

Member Port Time:

Specify the aging time of the member port. Within this time, if the
switch doesn

’t receive IGMP report message from the member

port, it will consider this port is not a member port any more.

Leave Time:

Specify the interval between the switch receiving a leave message
from a host, and the switch removing the host from the multicast
groups.

Static Router Port:

Select the static router port which is mainly used in the network
with stable topology.

Note:

1. The router port should be in the multicast VLAN, otherwise the member ports can not receive

multicast streams.

2. The Multicast VLAN won't take effect unless you first complete the configuration for the

corresponding VLAN owning the port on the 802.1Q VLAN page.

3.

It is recommended to choose GENERAL as the link type of the member ports in the multicast
VLAN.

4. Configure the link type of the router port in the multicast VLAN as TRUNK or configure the

egress rule as TAG and the link type as GENERAL otherwise all the member ports in the
multicast VLAN can not receive multicast streams.

5. After a multicast VLAN is created, all the IGMP packets will be processed only within the

multicast VLAN.

Configuration procedure:

Step Operation

Description

1

Enable

IGMP

Snooping

function

Required. Enable IGMP Snooping globally on the switch
and

for

the

port

on

Multicast

→IGMP

Snooping

→Snooping Config and Port Config page.

2

Create a multicast VLAN

Required. Create a multicast VLAN and add all the member
ports and router ports to the VLAN on the VLAN

→802.1Q

VLAN page.

Configure the link type of the member ports as GENERAL..

Configure the link type of the router ports as TRUNK or
configure the egress rule as tagged GENERAL.

3

Configure parameters for
multicast VLAN

Optional. Enable and configure a multicast VLAN on the
Multicast

→IGMP Snooping→Multicast VLAN page.

It is recommended to keep the default time parameters.

4

Look over the configuration

If it is successfully configured, the VLAN ID of the multicast
VLAN will be displayed in the IGMP Snooping Status table

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