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IGMP Snooping Querier Commands
The IGMP/MLD Snooping Querier is an extension to the IGMP/MLD
Snooping feature. IGMP/MLD Snooping Querier allows the switch to
simulate an IGMP/MLD router in a Layer 2-only network, thus removing the
need to have an IGMP/MLD Router to collect and refresh the multicast
group membership information. The querier function simulates a small
subset of the IGMP/MLD router functionality.
In a network with IP multicast routing, an IP multicast router acts as the
IGMP/MLD querier. However, if it is required that the IP-multicast traffic in
a VLAN be switched, the PowerConnect can be configured as an IGMP/MLD
querier. When IGMP/MLD Snooping Querier is enabled, the Querier sends
out periodic IGMP/MLD General Queries that trigger the Multicast
listeners/member to send their joins so as to receive the Multicast data traffic.
IGMP/MLD Snooping listens to these reports to establish the appropriate L2
forwarding table entries.
The PowerConnect supports version IGMP V1 and 2 for snooping IGMP
queries.
Commands in this Chapter
This chapter explains the following commands:
ip igmp snooping querier
This command enables or disables IGMP Snooping Querier on the system
(Global Configuration mode) or on a VLAN. Using this command, you can
specify the IP address that the snooping querier switch should use as the
ip igmp snooping querier ip igmp snooping querier timer expiry
ip igmp snooping querier election
participate
ip igmp snooping querier version
ip igmp snooping querier query-interval show ip igmp snooping querier
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