Disabling multicast flooding during a tcn event, Configuring the igmp snooping querier – Dell POWEREDGE M1000E User Manual

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Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3130 and 3032 for Dell Software Configuration Guide

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Chapter 24 Configuring IGMP Snooping and MVR

Configuring IGMP Snooping

To return to the default query solicitation, use the no ip igmp snooping tcn query solicit global
configuration command.

Disabling Multicast Flooding During a TCN Event

When the switch receives a TCN, multicast traffic is flooded to all the ports until 2 general queries are
received. If the switch has many ports with attached hosts that are subscribed to different multicast
groups, this flooding might exceed the capacity of the link and cause packet loss. You can use the ip
igmp snooping tcn flood
interface configuration command to control this behavior.

Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to disable multicast flooding on an interface:

To re-enable multicast flooding on an interface, use the ip igmp snooping tcn flood interface
configuration command.

Configuring the IGMP Snooping Querier

Follow these guidelines when configuring the IGMP snooping querier:

Configure the VLAN in global configuration mode.

Configure an IP address on the VLAN interface. When enabled, the IGMP snooping querier uses the
IP address as the query source address.

If there is no IP address configured on the VLAN interface, the IGMP snooping querier tries to use
the configured global IP address for the IGMP querier. If there is no global IP address specified, the
IGMP querier tries to use the VLAN switch virtual interface (SVI) IP address (if one exists). If there
is no SVI IP address, the switch uses the first available IP address configured on the switch. The
first IP address available appears in the output of the show ip interface privileged EXEC command.
The IGMP snooping querier does not generate an IGMP general query if it cannot find an available
IP address on the switch.

The IGMP snooping querier supports IGMP Versions 1 and 2.

When administratively enabled, the IGMP snooping querier moves to the nonquerier state if it
detects the presence of a multicast router in the network.

Command

Purpose

Step 1

configure terminal

Enter global configuration mode.

Step 2

interface interface-id

Specify the interface to be configured, and enter interface
configuration mode.

Step 3

no ip igmp snooping tcn flood

Disable the flooding of multicast traffic during a spanning-tree TCN
event.

By default, multicast flooding is enabled on an interface.

Step 4

exit

Return to privileged EXEC mode.

Step 5

show ip igmp snooping

Verify the TCN settings.

Step 6

copy running-config startup-config

(Optional) Save your entries in the configuration file.

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