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   Mark to pk@pk.invalid   
   Re: multicast address   
   14 May 09 09:17:07   
   
   From: mark_cruzNOTFORSPAM@hotmail.com   
      
   "pk"  wrote in message news:guff0v$e0r$1@aioe.org...   
   > So what those switches do is to intercept IGMP messages they   
   > receive to try to understand on which ports multicast receivers may be   
   > located, and flood multicast frames only out of those ports (simplified).   
      
   So, switches supporting IGMP snooping only intercept packets and don't   
   modify them?   
      
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   Mark   
      
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