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250 | Chapter 13. IGMP Snooping and Querier
ProSafe M4100 and M7100 Managed Switches
A screen similar to the following displays.
2. Under Multicast Router VLAN Configuration, scroll down and select the Interface 1/0/3 check
box.
3. Enter the following information in the Multicast Router VLAN Configuration.
• In the VLAN ID field, enter 2.
• In the Multicast Router field, select Enable.
4. Click Apply.
IGMP Querier
When the switch is used in network applications where video services such as IPTV, video
streaming, and gaming are deployed, the video traffic is normally flooded to all connected
ports because such traffic packets usually have multicast Ethernet addresses. IGMP
snooping can be enabled to create a multicast group to direct that traffic only to those users
that require it.
However, the IGMP snooping operation usually requires an extra network device—usually a
router—that can generate an IGMP membership query and solicit interested nodes to