Turn off Multicasting per port on GS752TPP?

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shultzee13 wrote:

Can you turn off multicasting per port on this switch?

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Not sure the potential readers do undestand what you are asking for here.

A Smart Switch does not (or only in vary small aspects, eg. for UPnP annoucemements, Multicast on it's own.

When it comes to ICMP Multicast, the -receiver- does register for a certain IPv4 and/or IPv6 Multicast address, so only selcted devices will receive eg. the signals from a video stream, and audio stream, ...   

This is done to avoid a lot of traffic on a selected connection, (like a wireless, a slower speed Ethernet link, ...) where less bandwith is available where otherwise all the "mess* does flood out to all ports, being as Multicast traffic, or worst case as Brodcast traffic. This is what dumb "unmanged" switches do.

Of course, blunt theory, you could put up ACL flters for a certain Multicast address, and deploy these ACLs on certin ports only.

Said this: When I see on how some products (for example network cameras...) allow randomly generated or manually added Multicast IP addresses (even in the correct address space) can and sometimes must be manually deployed, this does require even more careful planning than a simple IP address and subnet plan (requiring more than verge basic network user knowledge). If not, poor results (errors, problems, ...) are predictable. 

Tell us (much, really much much more, in depth, ....) more what (potentially Multicast?) problem you like to address or fix on your network, the community might be able to help. This is more than just an [On] | [Off] switch required in a Web UI. 

Regards,

-Kurt.