ANSWER3=Routers need switches to translate IGMP requests into CGMP requests in order to process them.
ANSWER4=Catalysts can't distinguish between membership report packets and actual multicast data packets.
REACTION1=
REACTION2=
REACTION3=
REACTION4=Because IGMP is an overloaded protocol, the switches cannot distinguish between membership report packets and normal IGMP packets containing data. The router must run CGMP in order to translate the IGMP requests received from the hosts into something the switch can process.
TXT_LINK1=Cisco Group Management Protocol (CGMP)
TXT_LINK2=Cisco Group Management Protocol (CGMP)
TXT_LINK3=Cisco Group Management Protocol (CGMP)
TXT_LINK4=Cisco Group Management Protocol (CGMP)
LINK1=s093+357a
LINK2=s093+357a
LINK3=s093+357a
LINK4=s093+357a
TEXT_SHOW_ANSWER=Because IGMP is an overloaded protocol, the switches cannot distinguish between membership report packets and normal IGMP packets containing data. The router must run CGMP in order to translate the IGMP requests received from the hosts into something the switch can process.