Re: [magma] Question about IGMP host implementation

Hi Indranil,
Why the Query coming from VLAN-A has to be forwarded to VLAN-B?
In general switch should forward the Query packets to all the ports in same VLAN(VLAN-A). Hosts receiving the Query can reply to the query even the source address of the Query is in different subnet.
Is there anything I am missing in your reply???
Thanks
B S  Reddy

From: magma-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:magma-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Indranil Bhattacharya
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 2:06 PM
To: Kunal Shah
Cc: magma@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [magma] Question about IGMP host implementation

Hi Kunal,

             Yes it should. The scenario that I have in mind is a switch whose mrouter interface is in vlanA and igmp joins are received on an interface in vlanB. In this case, query coming from vlanA(different subnet) has to be answered by hosts in vlanB.

Thanks,
Indranil
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Kunal Shah <kunal.shah@ericsson.com<mailto:kunal.shah@ericsson.com>> wrote:
Hi all,

Can an IGMPv2 host respond to a general query originated from a subnet other then its own?? RFC 2236 states:

""query received" occurs when the host receives either a valid
     General Membership Query message, or a valid Group-Specific
     Membership Query message.  To be valid, the Query message must be
     at least 8 octets long, and have a correct IGMP checksum.  The
     group address in the IGMP header must either be zero (a General
     Query) or a valid multicast group address (a Group-Specific Query)"

There is no requirement for the source address to be on the same subnet as the host.

Thanks,
Kunal

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