Defining Unregistered Multicast Settings - Cisco ESW 500 Administration Manual

Configuring Multicast Forwarding

Defining Unregistered Multicast Settings

STEP 5
Defining Unregistered Multicast Settings
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Click Apply. The Multicast Forward All settings are modified, and the device is
updated.
Multicast frames are generally forwarded to all ports in the VLAN. If IGMP
Snooping is enabled, the device learns about the existence of Multicast groups
and monitors which ports have joined what Multicast group. Multicast groups can
also be statically enabled. This enables the device to forward the Multicast frames
(from a registered Multicast group) only to ports that are registered to that
Multicast group.
Unregistered Multicast Page
The
belong to Unregistered Multicast groups. Unregistered Multicast groups are the
groups that are not known to the device. All Unregistered Multicast frames are still
forwarded to all ports on the VLAN. After a port has been set to Forwarding/
Filtering, then this port's configuration is valid for any VLAN it is a member of (or
will be a member of).
To define unregistered Multicast settings:
contains fields to handle Multicast frames that
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