On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 03:48:58PM +1000, Simon Bryan wrote:
> While digging around in my Switch logs, I found some ports having a number of IGMP 
> packets associated with them, about 5 out of 40. I am not 100% sure on IGMP but my 
> quick reading says it 'allows Internet hosts to participate in multicasting'.
> Is this a concern? What type of applications (on aschool network) would be doing 
> multicasting?

Some routing protocols like ospf use IGMP for their communication.

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        chesty

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