Siemens S323 User Manual

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9.2.9 
Displaying IGMP Snooping Table 
To display an IGMP snooping table, use the following command. 
Command Mode 
Description 
show ip igmp snooping groups
 
[IP-ADDRESS
show ip igmp snooping groups 
port
 [PORTcpu
show ip igmp snooping groups 
vlan
 VLANS 
show ip igmp snooping groups 
mac-based 
Enable 
Global 
Bridge 
Shows a configuration. 
 
9.3 PIM-SM 
(Protocol 
Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode) 
IGMP is the protocol to help multicast communication between switch and host, but PIM 
is the protocol for multicast communication between router and router. There are two 
kinds of PIM, PIM-DM (Protocol Independent Multicast–Dense Mode) and PIM-SM (Pro-
tocol Independent Multicast–Sparse Mode), the hiD 6615 S323 supports PIM-SM only. 
Protocol of dense mode can send information about data packet and member to interface, 
which is not connected to multicast source or receiver, and multicast router saves con-
nection state to all the nodes. In this case, when most hosts are belonged to multicast 
group and there is enough bandwidth to support flow of controlling message between 
constituent members, these overheads are acceptable, but the other cases are inefficient. 
Contrary to dense mode, PIM-SM receives multicast packet only when request comes 
from specific host in multicast group. Therefore PIM-SM is proper when constituent mem-
bers of group are dispersed in wide area or bandwidth used for the whole is small. Sparse 
mode is the most useful on WAN and can be used on LAN. For standard of PIM-SM, you 
can refer to RFC 2362. 
 
RPT and SPT 
RP (Rendezvous Point) works in a central role for PIM-SM. Viewing the below chart, mul-
ticast packet is transmitted to D as RP from A as source, through B and C. And D (RP) 
transmits multicast packet after receiving join message from E or F. That is, all multicast 
packets are transmitted with passing through RP (Rendezvous Point). For instance, even 
though F needs multicast packet, the packet is passed through『A→B→C→D→C→F』, 
not『A→B→C→F』. 
Like this, route made with focusing on RP is RPT (Rendezvous Point Tree) or shared tree. 
There is only one RP in one multicast group. RPT has (*, G) entry because receiver can 
send a message to RP without knowing source. “G” means multicast group.