What does IGMP proxy do?
IGMP proxy enables the router to issue IGMP host messages on behalf of hosts that the router discovered through standard IGMP interfaces. The router acts as a proxy for its hosts.
What is the use of IGMP proxy snooping in router?
The IGMP snooping proxy function conserves bandwidth by reducing IGMP message exchanges. In addition, IGMP snooping proxy functions as a querier to process protocol messages received from downstream hosts and maintain group memberships. This reduces the load of the upstream Layer 3 device.
Should I enable WAN unicast on my router?
Use Unicasting: This option is normally turned off, and should remain off as long as the WAN-side DHCP server correctly provides an IP address to the router. However, if the router cannot obtain an IP address from the DHCP server, the DHCP server may be one that works better with unicast responses.
Should IGMP snooping be on?
When to Enable IGMP Snooping for Home Use. For a home based network, you should enable it when you frequently use any kind of streaming or mirroring from your devices to stream to Apple TV or Chromecast. In some brand firmware such as Asus, enabling IGMP Snooping can fix some of the Apple TV Airplay mirroring issues.
What happens if I disable IGMP snooping?
When disabled, the IGMP queries in VLAN and the reports from hosts are flooded. Thus IGMP Snooping proxy prevents a sudden burst in IGMP report traffic in response to queries and reduces the reports IGMP querier needs to process. However, latency is introduced when propagating the IGMP state through the VLAN.
Should I enable IGMP Snooping on wifi?
For a home based network, you should enable it when you frequently use any kind of streaming or mirroring from your devices to stream to Apple TV or Chromecast. In some brand firmware such as Asus, enabling IGMP Snooping can fix some of the Apple TV Airplay mirroring issues.
Should I turn off IGMP snooping?
You should generally leave the IGMP Snooping option as disabled if you do not use mirroring functions or other type of multicast traffic.
Is IGMP snooping good?
IGMP snooping is an important feature of network switches. When it is enabled, the bandwidth consumption will be reduced in a multi-access LAN environment so as to avoid flooding the entire VLAN, and network information security can also be improved at the same time.
How do I disable the IGMP proxy?
Paste this URL into the Address line of your browser once you have accessed the Actiontec settings and it will open up a hidden page where you can disable the IGMP Proxy. I found an Actiontec video on YouTube discussing setting up UPnP for devices like the Xbox.
Does Actiontec support Telus multicast on IGMP proxy?
The IGMP proxy configuration that Unifi uses is buggy at the best of times and does not support the Telus multicast settings. You must setup a VLAN with cable to one of the other 3 ports on the Actiontec and trunk that to your media cabinet switch. To be clear.
Should I put a USG in my IGMP proxy slot?
The general recommendation seems to be to just put a USG in there as a quick fix as it seems to be able to support IGMP Proxy with some json changes. Just wanted to ask if anyone here has any experience with this before I go drop some cash on a USG as apparently this is an issue with IP-TV as well.
Does the UDM-pro not support IGMP proxy?
Googling around seems to indicate that this is an issue with the UDM-PRO not having IGMP Proxy support.