Re: "ip multicast boundary" v "ip igmp access-group"

From: Andy (and123and@googlemail.com)
Date: Tue Feb 26 2008 - 13:21:52 ARST


Thanks Geert, both seem to be acheiving the same result, stopping a
particular mcast from crossing a device, ie if the question asked was make
sure 224.x.y.z is not available on this interface then could we use
either...?

On 26/02/2008, Geert Nijs <Geert.Nijs@simac.be> wrote:
>
> Actually they are completely different.
>
> ip igmp access-group acts on IGMP packets at the edge and determines which
> groups a client can join by determining which IGMP membership packets the
> switch will accept.
>
> ip multicast boundary acts on the actual multicast stream packets and
> determines which multicast packets will pass the boundary by looking at the
> multicast destination address.
> Certain destination addresses can be filtered using ACLs. If needed, it
> can also filter auto-rp messages to remove the same groups from the auto-rp
> advertisements.
>
> regards,
> Geert
>
> ________________________________________
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Andy [
> and123and@googlemail.com]
> Sent: 26 February 2008 14:43
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> Subject: "ip multicast boundary" v "ip igmp access-group"
>
> Hi
>
> the two commands below kinda acheive the same thing, dont they? What are
> the
> differences and when to use one over the other.
>
> ip multicast boundary
>
> ip igmp access-group
>
> Thanks
>
> -A
>
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