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m4300 managing mutlicast mdns discovery
Hi Support, I need some advice on IGMP multicast mdns on Netgear switches for hotel environment. We are using pfsense gateway with 2 VLAN (20 / 30) with avahi, connect to Layer 2 netgear swit...
Hi VincentKhoo
If enable IGMP snooping, I am afraid that none of cast could be discoveried on mobile device. 1st idea from me, create MAC ACL to filter out undesired cast.
Hi Retired_Member ,
Correct me if I am wrong, mdns / bonjour are multicast traffic, shouldnt we enable IGMP snooping to better manage the udp traffic? Can we use L2 switches like GS724 or FS728TP to create Mac ACL? As we are using this solution in hotel environment, mobile devices movement are not fix, can you advice if PIM-SM is a better options to manage the mdns traffic.
Cheers Vincent
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