Users Guide
NOTE: The IN-L3-McastFib CAM partition stores multicast routes and is a separate hardware limit that exists per port-pipe. Any 
software-congured limit may supersede this hardware space limitation. The opposite is also true, the CAM partition might not 
be exhausted at the time the system-wide route limit is reached using the ip multicast-limit command.
Preventing a Host from Joining a Group
You can prevent a host from joining a particular group by blocking specic IGMP reports using an extended access list containing the 
permissible source-group pairs.
NOTE: For rules in IGMP access lists, 
source
 is the multicast source, not the source of the IGMP packet. For IGMPv2, use the 
keyword any for 
source
 (as shown in the following example) because the IGMPv2 hosts do not know in advance who the source 
is for the group in which they are interested.
To apply the access list, use the following command.
• Apply the access list.
INTERFACE mode
ip igmp access-group access-list-name
Dell Networking OS Behavior: Do not enter the ip igmp access-group command before creating the access-list. If you do, after 
entering your rst deny rule, the Dell Networking OS clears the multicast routing table and re-learns all groups, even those not covered by 
the rules in the access-list, because there is an implicit deny all rule at the end of all access-lists. Therefore, conguring an IGMP join 
request lter in this order might result in data loss. If you must enter the ip igmp access-group command before creating the 
access-list, prevent the Dell Networking OS from clearing the routing table by entering a permit any rule with a high sequence number 
before you enter any other rules.
In the following example, virtual local area network (VLAN) 400 is congured with an access list to permit only IGMP reports for group 
239.0.0.1. Though Receiver 2 sends a membership report for groups 239.0.0.1 and 239.0.0.2, a multicast routing table entry is created only 
for group 239.0.0.1. VLAN 300 has no access list limiting Receiver 1, so both IGMP reports are accepted and two corresponding entries are 
created in the routing table.
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