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XS708T switch not passing Ethernet multicast packets
I submitted this issue to Support a week ago and there's been no response. Perhaps someone here knows the answer. Here's what I sent to Support. -------- We bought five XS708T switches and they are...
I figured out the solution to my problem. You have to add the MAC multicast addresses to the ACL settings. An example is shown in the attached screen shot.
STEPS
- Click on Security --> ACL --> ACL Wizard.
- Choose "ACL Based on Destination MAC" on the ACL Type pull-down menu.
- Enter the Sequence Number. You can start at 1 if you have no ACL rules or use a unique positive integer if you have ACL rules.
- Set the Action field to Permit.
- Set the Match Every field to False.
- Enter the Destination MAC address to forward. In the screen shot, this is 01:80:c2:00:00:72.
- Set the Destination MAC MASK to ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff. The manual says use 00:00:00:ff:ff:ff for BPDUs like we're using, but I had problems saving using that mask and had to mask all 48 bits.
- Set the VLAN ID to 1. By default, this is an untagged VLAN that goes to all egress ports.
- In the Binding Configuration section, choose which ports are allowed to send the special frame.
- For each unique MAC multicast address, you should add an additional sequence number.
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I submitted this issue to Support a week ago and there's been no response. Perhaps someone here knows the answer.
May I know the case number so that I will send it to the NETGEAR Support Team for follow-up.
Regards,
DaneA
NETGEAR Community Team
Dane: I checked Support, and there is no case found, even though I did a submit.
I'll check the IGMP settings. Even though our frames are in the same MAC address range as STP, none of the STP settings worked.
I figured out the solution to my problem. You have to add the MAC multicast addresses to the ACL settings. An example is shown in the attached screen shot.
STEPS
- Click on Security --> ACL --> ACL Wizard.
- Choose "ACL Based on Destination MAC" on the ACL Type pull-down menu.
- Enter the Sequence Number. You can start at 1 if you have no ACL rules or use a unique positive integer if you have ACL rules.
- Set the Action field to Permit.
- Set the Match Every field to False.
- Enter the Destination MAC address to forward. In the screen shot, this is 01:80:c2:00:00:72.
- Set the Destination MAC MASK to ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff. The manual says use 00:00:00:ff:ff:ff for BPDUs like we're using, but I had problems saving using that mask and had to mask all 48 bits.
- Set the VLAN ID to 1. By default, this is an untagged VLAN that goes to all egress ports.
- In the Binding Configuration section, choose which ports are allowed to send the special frame.
- For each unique MAC multicast address, you should add an additional sequence number.
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