What is IPv6 MLD snooping?
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What is IPv6 MLD snooping?
With MLD snooping, IPv6 multicast data is selectively forwarded to a list of ports that want to receive the data, instead of being flooded to all ports in a VLAN. The switch can snoop on both MLDv1 and MLDv2 protocol packets and bridge IPv6 multicast data based on destination IPv6 multicast MAC addresses.
What is igmp MLD snooping?
An IGMP query message received on a port is used to identify the port that is connected to a router and is interested in receiving multicast traffic. MLD snooping processes MLD v1/v2 reports, queries and v1 done messages for IPv6 groups.
What is MLD in networking?
Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) is a component of the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) suite. MLD is used by IPv6 routers for discovering multicast listeners on a directly attached link, much like Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) is used in IPv4.
How MLD works?
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What is MLD querier?
The querier is a multicast router or a switch that periodically asks MLD hosts on the network to verify their multicast join requests. There is one querier for each VLAN, and all switches on the VLAN listen to the responses of MLD hosts to multicast queries and forward or block multicast traffic accordingly.
What is MLD Snooping Cisco?
For cisco switches, MLD snooping provides the same functionality as IGMP snooping in IPv4.It provides information to the switch about which connected hosts are member of a specific group so that switch can make decision about whether, and on which interface, to allow traffic for that group.
Does IGMP need snooping?
IGMP snooping is an important feature of network switches. When it is enabled, the bandwidth consumption will be reduced in a multi-access LAN environment so as to avoid flooding the entire VLAN, and network information security can also be improved at the same time.
Is IGMP snooping required?
Network switches with IGMP snooping listen in on the IGMP conversation between hosts and routers and maintain a map of which links need which IP multicast transmission. Multicasts may be filtered from the links which do not need them, conserving bandwidth on those links.
What is MLD maximum?
MLD maximum response time—Maximum time before a receiver responds with a report to an MLD general query. This per-group timer is initialized to a random value in the range of 0 to the maximum response time specified in the MLD query. When the timer value decreases to 0, the receiver sends an MLD report to the group.
What is MLD report?
When a listener starts listening for a multicast address on an interface, it sends an MLD report message for that address on that interface. When a listener stops listening for a multicast address on an interface, it sends a single MLD done message.
What is the difference between IGMP and IGMP snooping?
IGMP is a network layer (Layer 3) protocol used to establish membership in a Multicast group and can register a router to receive specific Multicast traffic. IGMP snooping checks IGMP packets passing through the network, picks out the group registration, and configures Multicasting accordingly.
How do I enable IGMP?
- To enable Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) snooping, use the ip igmp snooping enable command in switch configuration mode.
- To enable IGMP Snooping querier globally, use the ip igmp snooping querier enable command in switch configuration mode.