Internet protocol (IP) multicast technology has matured quite a bit since it was first deployed in the late 1990s. Multicast-enabled applications such as webinars, video/audio conferences, Internet ...

Just like example 2a, except IGMP v3 snooping works on this box. There are a couple of unusual things going on but nothing major: The switch floods the router's group-specific query to all ports, not ...

This is a repeat of example 1, just forcing IGMP v2 instead of v3. Everything works as expected. The switch spoofs the group-specific leave query before telling the router to prune the group. This ...

Abstract: The multicast management protocol ‘IGMP Snooping’ brings many benefits to multicast transmission at Layer 2, but when it comes to the processing of abnormal IGMP messages, the processing ...

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