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Clients on access points within an AP group are not receiving multicast traffic after roaming to another AP within the AP group. Which action maintains multicast connectivity?
The correct answer is C. Enable IGMP snooping. After a client roams within an AP group, enabling IGMP snooping ensures the network correctly tracks and maintains the client's multicast group memberships on the new AP's switch port.
Question
Clients on access points within an AP group are not receiving multicast traffic after roaming to another AP within the AP group. Which action maintains multicast connectivity?
Options
- AEnable a unique NAS-ID for the AP group.
- BEnable NAC out-of-band support.
- CEnable IGMP snooping.
- DEnable an ACL on the router that serves the VLAN or subnet.
How the community answered
(40 responses)- A10% (4)
- B3% (1)
- C80% (32)
- D8% (3)
Why each option
After a client roams within an AP group, enabling IGMP snooping ensures the network correctly tracks and maintains the client's multicast group memberships on the new AP's switch port.
A NAS-ID uniquely identifies the AP group to a RADIUS server for authentication purposes and has no effect on multicast traffic forwarding.
NAC out-of-band support is a posture and access control mechanism for endpoint compliance, not a mechanism that affects multicast group membership tracking after roaming.
IGMP snooping allows the switch to listen to IGMP membership reports and track which ports have active multicast subscribers. When a client roams to a new AP, IGMP snooping ensures the switch updates its multicast forwarding table to deliver traffic on the correct port, restoring multicast connectivity without requiring the client to re-subscribe manually.
Applying an ACL on the router serving the VLAN would restrict or permit traffic at Layer 3, but does not address the switch-level multicast forwarding issue caused by roaming.
Concept tested: IGMP snooping for multicast continuity after wireless roaming
Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/wireless/catalyst-9800-series-wireless-controllers/213845-configure-igmp-snooping-on-catalyst-9800.html
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