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Handling multicast flooding on Pro AV network with stacked switches - m4300s
Hello, I recently completed Netgears SDVoE certification and certification for it's Pro AV switches and have heard mention a few times that in spine-and-leaf, when stacking switches, multicast fl...
Hi ibmtci,
Stacking switches in general may incur some multicast flooding on the stacking links. But it is not an issue, most of multicast packets will be discarded at the receiver side. Furthermore, to handle or prevent multicast flooding on your network, it is recommended to use IGMP+ on all of your receivers.
Thanks,
Randy
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