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28.Dd March 9, 2009
29.Dt IGMP 4
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm igmp
33.Nd Internet Group Management Protocol
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.In sys/types.h
36.In sys/socket.h
37.In netinet/in.h
38.In netinet/in_systm.h
39.In netinet/ip.h
40.In netinet/igmp.h
41.Ft int
42.Fn socket AF_INET SOCK_RAW IPPROTO_IGMP
43.Sh DESCRIPTION
44.Tn IGMP
45is a control plane protocol used by IPv4 hosts and routers to
46propagate multicast group membership information.
47Normally this protocol is not used directly, except by the kernel
48itself, in response to multicast membership requests by user
49applications.
50Routing protocols may open a raw socket to directly interact with
51.Nm .
52.Pp
53As of
54.Fx 8.0 ,
55IGMP version 3 is implemented.
56This adds support for Source-Specific Multicast (SSM), whereby
57applications may communicate to upstream multicast routers that
58they are only interested in receiving multicast streams from
59particular sources.
60.\"
61.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES
62.Bl -tag -width indent
63.\"
64.It net.inet.igmp.stats
65This opaque read-only variable exposes the stack-wide IGMPv3
66protocol statistics to
67.Xr netstat 1 .
68.\"
69.It net.inet.igmp.ifinfo
70This opaque read-only variable exposes the per-link IGMPv3 status to
71.Xr ifmcstat 8 .
72.\"
73.It net.inet.igmp.gsrdelay
74This variable specifies the time threshold, in seconds, for processing
75Group-and-Source Specific Queries (GSR).
76As GSR query processing requires maintaining state on the host,
77it may cause memory to be allocated, and is therefore a potential
78attack point for Denial-of-Service (DoS).
79If more than one GSR query is received within this threshold,
80it will be dropped, to mitigate the potential for DoS.
81.\"
82.It net.inet.igmp.default_version
83This variable controls the default version of IGMP to be used on all links.
84This sysctl is normally set to 3 by default.
85.\"
86.It net.inet.igmp.legacysupp
87If this variable is non-zero, then IGMP v1 and v2 membership reports
88received on a link will be allowed to suppress the IGMP v3 state-change
89reports which would otherwise be issued by this host.
90This sysctl is normally enabled by default.
91.\"
92.It net.inet.igmp.v2enable
93If this variable is non-zero, then IGMP v2 membership queries will be
94processed by this host, and backwards compatibility will be enabled
95until the v2 'Old Querier Present' timer expires.
96This sysctl is normally enabled by default.
97.\"
98.It net.inet.igmp.v1enable
99If this variable is non-zero, then IGMP v1 membership queries will be
100processed by this host, and backwards compatibility will be enabled
101until the v1 'Old Querier Present' timer expires.
102This sysctl is normally enabled by default.
103.\"
104.It net.inet.igmp.sendlocal
105If this variable is non-zero, then IGMP state-changes for groups in
106the 224.0.0.0/24 link-scope prefix will be issued.
107This behaviour is recommended if deploying
108.Fx
109in a network environment with layer 2 devices which snoop IGMP traffic
110to mitigate multicast propagation throughout the network.
111This sysctl is normally enabled by default.
112.\"
113.It net.inet.igmp.sendra
114If this variable is non-zero, then IGMP v2 and v3 reports will contain
115the IP Router Alert option.
116This sysctl is normally enabled by default.
117.\"
118.It net.inet.igmp.recvifkludge
119If this variable is non-zero, then received IGMP reports which contain
1200.0.0.0 as their source will be rewritten to contain the subnet address.
121This is useful when there are hosts on-link which have not yet been
122configured with a primary IPv4 address.
123This sysctl is normally enabled by default.
124.\"
125.El
126.Sh SEE ALSO
127.Xr netstat 1 ,
128.Xr sourcefilter 3 ,
129.Xr inet 4 ,
130.Xr multicast 4 ,
131.Xr ifmcstat 8
132.Sh HISTORY
133The
134.Nm
135manual page re-appeared in
136.Fx 8.0 .
137