Title :
IGMP snooping: a VLAN-based multicast protocol
Author :
Wang, Jun ; Sun, Limin ; Jiang, Xiu ; Wu, Zhimei
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Software, Acad. Sinica, Beijing, China
Abstract :
This paper introduces a VLAN-based multicast protocol, which supports multicast communication over switch Ethernet. This protocol restricts the multicast traffic of an IP multicast group in a VLAN. It starts with a table including an IP multicast group and the corresponding VLAN. Then it can get the multicast session information to maintain the table by snooping the IGMP messages sent by hosts or routers. In this paper, we give the basic idea, syntax and semantics of this protocol. Finally, an experiment and its results are also provided.
Keywords :
local area networks; multicast protocols; table lookup; telecommunication traffic; IGMP snooping; VLAN; multicast communication; multicast protocol; multicast traffic; switch Ethernet; table lookup; Broadcasting; Communication switching; Ethernet networks; Local area networks; Multicast communication; Multicast protocols; Network topology; Sun; Switches; Telecommunication traffic;
Conference_Titel :
High Speed Networks and Multimedia Communications 5th IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7600-5
DOI :
10.1109/HSNMC.2002.1032603
