> Hi all,
Hi Anuska,
> My question is, taking into account that every packet addressed to the
> gateway is using as destination a multicast mac address, how to avoid
> these packets to be sent to every port in the switches?
If your switches are able to learn who is on which port they don't send
every frame to every port. Switches can learn this by receiving IGMP messages.
The switches's IGMP snooping feature must be enabled.
HTH
André
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Greetings.
>
>
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