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V-206662CAT III — Low severitySV-206662r385561_rule

The layer 2 switch must have IGMP or MLD Snooping configured on all VLANs

Rule version SRG-NET-000512-L2S-000002 · STIG v3 · 2026-02-12

Discussion

IGMP and MLD snooping provides a way to constrain multicast traffic at Layer 2. By monitoring the IGMP or MLD membership reports sent by hosts within a VLAN, the snooping application can set up Layer 2 multicast forwarding tables to deliver specific multicast traffic only to interfaces connected to hosts interested in receiving the traffic, thereby significantly reducing the volume of multicast traffic that would otherwise flood the VLAN.

Check

Review the switch configuration to verify that IGMP or MLD snooping has been configured for IPv4 and IPv6 multicast traffic respectively.

If the switch is not configured to implement IGMP or MLD snooping for each VLAN, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure IGMP or MLD snooping for IPv4 and IPv6 multicast traffic respectively for each VLAN.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-206662
Group title
SRG-NET-000512
Rule ID
SV-206662r385561_rule
Check ID
C-6920r298416_chk
Fix ID
F-6920r298417_fix