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RuggedSwitch™ User Guide
Combined Router And Switch IGMP Operation
This section describes the additional challenges of multiple routers, VLAN
support and switching.
Producer P1 resides upon VLAN 2 while P2 resides upon VLAN 3. Consumer C1
resides upon both VLANs whereas C2 and C3 reside upon VLANs 3 and 2,
respectively. Router 2 resides upon VLAN 2, presumably to forward multicast
traffic to a remote network or act as a source of multicast traffic itself.
Multicast
Router 1
P1
C1 C2 C3
Switch
Multicast
Router 2
VLAN 2,3 VLAN 3 VLAN 2
VLAN 2
VLAN 2
P2
VLAN 3
VLAN 2
Figure 43: IGMP Operation Example 2
Starting Up
Multicast routers use IGMP to elect a master router known as the querier. All
other routers become of non-queriers, participating only forward multicast traffic.
If both switches and routers are present, a router always becomes the querier.
Routers and switches can always distinguish each other from the source IP address
in the IGMP query. A router uses its own source address while the switch always
uses an address of 0.0.0.0 for queries, joins and leaves.
At startup a switch in active IGMP mode will begin generating general
membership queries for each VLAN on each port every switch query interval. If
the switch detects a querier router on a particular VLAN it will stop generating its
own queries and relay those from the querier.
A switch starting up in passive mode will simply wait for queries from a router.
In this example we will assume that the two routers agree that router 1 is the
querier for VLAN 2 and router 2 is simply a non-querier. In this case, the switch
will periodically receive queries from router 1 and, thus, maintain the information
which port links the multicast router. However, the switch port that links to router
2 must be manually configured as “router port”, otherwise, the switch will not
send neither multicast streams or joins/leaves to router 2.
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