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OS X network stack ignores IGMP membership queries
The problem is shown in the first packet capture, where you will notice that the IGMP group join packet is an IGMPv2 packet, but the responses from the IGMP querier are all v3.
This may seem fine, ...
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Which VLANs need IGMP snooping?
Answer:
Yes, it's useful to limit the broadcast effects of multicast
None, provided there really is no multicast
Wrt. 2, there may be other limitations depending on the actual L2 device or operating ...
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Disable all gratuitious ARP, TCP & HTML queries Windows 7
Generally, a network device should cope with gratuitious traffic, but there are various approaches other than trying to shut down that traffic on the clients. The client approach is time-consuming and ...
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OS X network stack ignores IGMP membership queries
This basically breaks IGMPv3, permanently, on most networks. Why? Because some very common implementations of mDNS (like the iPhone) frequently and gratuitously leave and rejoin 224.0.0.251 (the mDNS ...
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Multicast works only in promiscuous mode
I know the question is old, but...
it was necessary to set the allmulti flag on your network card
ifconfig enp3s0 allmulti
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