D-Link DWS-4026 [229/741] Configuring mld snooping queriers

ConfiguringMLDSnoopingQueriers

D-Link UnifiedWiredandWirelessAccessSystem

November2011 Page229

D‐LinkUWSUserManual

ConfiguringMLDSnoopingQueriers

InanIPv6environment,MLDSnoopingrequiresthatonecentralswitchorrouterperiodicallyqueryallend‐

devicesonthenetworktoannouncetheirmulticastmemberships.Thiscentraldeviceisthe'MLDquerier'.The

MLDqueryresponses,knownasMLDreports,keeptheswitchupdatedwiththecurrentmulticastgroup

membershiponaport‐by‐portba

sis.Iftheswitchdoesnotreceiveupdatedmembershipinfo rmationina

timelyfashion,itwillstopforwardingmulticasttotheportwheretheenddeviceislocated.

ThesepagesenableyoutoconfigureanddisplayinformationonMLDSnoopingqueriersonthenetworkand,

separately,onVLANs.

MLDSnoopingQuerierConfiguration

UsethispagetoenableordisabletheMLDSnoopingQuerierfeature,specify theIPaddressoftherouterto

performthequerying,andconfigurerelatedparameters.UsersmusthaveRead/Writeaccessprivilegesto

changethedataonthispage.

Toaccessthispage,clickLAN>L2Features >MLDSnoopingQu

erier>MLDSnoopingQuerierConfiguration

inthenavigationtree.

Figure140:MLDSnoopingQuerierConfiguration

Table122:MLDSnoopingQuerierConfigurationFields

Field Description

SnoopingQuerierAdmin

Mode

SelecttheadministrativemodeforMLDSnoopingfortheswitchfromthe

pulldownmenu.ThedefaultisDisable.

SnoopingQuerierAddress SpecifytheSnoopingQuerierAddresstobeusedassourceIPv6addressin

periodicMLDqueries.Thisaddressisusedwhennoaddressisconfiguredon

theVLANonwhichquer

yisbeingsent.

MLDVersion SpecifytheMLDprotocolversionusedinperiodicMLDqueries.

QueryInterval Specifythetimeintervalinsecondsbetweenperiodicqueriessentbythe

snoopingquerier.TheQueryIntervalmustbeavalueintherangeof1and

1800.Thedefaultvalueis60.