Background!
Ethernet switches use Internet group management protocol (IGMP) snooping to
determine where a switch should forward multicast traffic. With IGMP snooping enabled,
a switch listens for IGMP reports from attached devices that wish to receive multicast
traffic. The switch then maps subscribed multicast group address(es) to the interface on
which the subscriber is attached. When the switch receives traffic destined for an IP
multicast group address, it will forward it only to those interfaces from which it has heard
membership reports.
Topology!
In this example, both Juniper and Cisco switches operate purely in Layer-2 mode, with no
multicast or unicast routing protocols configured. This test case assumes routing is
handled elsewhere in the network.
A video server generates multicast traffic that is routed across a network and reaches the
two switches described here. The switches, in turn, use their IGMP snooping tables to
determine which ports should and should not receive multicast traffic.
The streaming video server sends traffic to 10 multicast group addresses in the range of
225.0.1.0 through 225.0.1.9. Subscribers attached to the Juniper and Cisco switches join
all 10 multicast groups.
Figure 10 illustrates the topology used to validate IP multicast switching functionality.
Both the Juniper and Cisco switches use IGMP snooping.
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Juniper!commands!
In this example, IGMP snooping is enabled on a per-VLAN basis. For example, these
commands create a VLAN called “v2001” and then enable IGMP snooping on that
VLAN:
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