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Dell EMC Networking OS Configuration Guide for the S5048F–ON System 9.14.2.8

MLD Snooping

Multicast packets are addressed with multicast MAC addresses, which represent a group of devices, rather than one unique device. Switches forward multicast frames out of all ports in a VLAN by default, even though there may be only some interested hosts, which is a waste of bandwidth. MLD Snooping enables switches to use information in MLD packets to generate a forwarding table that associates ports with multicast groups so that when they receive multicast frames, they can forward them only to interested receivers.

NOTE If PIM and MLD snooping is enabled in FHR, then either enable mrouter towards LHR or disable snooping towards LHR.

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