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30.Dd March 9, 2009
31.Dt IGMP 4
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm igmp
35.Nd Internet Group Management Protocol
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.In sys/types.h
38.In sys/socket.h
39.In netinet/in.h
40.In netinet/in_systm.h
41.In netinet/ip.h
42.In netinet/igmp.h
43.Ft int
44.Fn socket AF_INET SOCK_RAW IPPROTO_IGMP
45.Sh DESCRIPTION
46.Tn IGMP
47is a control plane protocol used by IPv4 hosts and routers to
48propagate multicast group membership information.
49Normally this protocol is not used directly, except by the kernel
50itself, in response to multicast membership requests by user
51applications.
52Routing protocols may open a raw socket to directly interact with
53.Nm .
54.Pp
55As of
56.Fx 8.0 ,
57IGMP version 3 is implemented.
58This adds support for Source-Specific Multicast (SSM), whereby
59applications may communicate to upstream multicast routers that
60they are only interested in receiving multicast streams from
61particular sources.
62.\"
63.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES
64.Bl -tag -width indent
65.\"
66.It net.inet.igmp.stats
67This opaque read-only variable exposes the stack-wide IGMPv3
68protocol statistics to
69.Xr netstat 1 .
70.\"
71.It net.inet.igmp.ifinfo
72This opaque read-only variable exposes the per-link IGMPv3 status to
73.Xr ifmcstat 8 .
74.\"
75.It net.inet.igmp.gsrdelay
76This variable specifies the time threshold, in seconds, for processing
77Group-and-Source Specific Queries (GSR).
78As GSR query processing requires maintaining state on the host,
79it may cause memory to be allocated, and is therefore a potential
80attack point for Denial-of-Service (DoS).
81If more than one GSR query is received within this threshold,
82it will be dropped, to mitigate the potential for DoS.
83.\"
84.It net.inet.igmp.default_version
85This variable controls the default version of IGMP to be used on all links.
86This sysctl is normally set to 3 by default.
87.\"
88.It net.inet.igmp.legacysupp
89If this variable is non-zero, then IGMP v1 and v2 membership reports
90received on a link will be allowed to suppress the IGMP v3 state-change
91reports which would otherwise be issued by this host.
92This sysctl is normally enabled by default.
93.\"
94.It net.inet.igmp.v2enable
95If this variable is non-zero, then IGMP v2 membership queries will be
96processed by this host, and backwards compatibility will be enabled
97until the v2 'Old Querier Present' timer expires.
98This sysctl is normally enabled by default.
99.\"
100.It net.inet.igmp.v1enable
101If this variable is non-zero, then IGMP v1 membership queries will be
102processed by this host, and backwards compatibility will be enabled
103until the v1 'Old Querier Present' timer expires.
104This sysctl is normally enabled by default.
105.\"
106.It net.inet.igmp.sendlocal
107If this variable is non-zero, then IGMP state-changes for groups in
108the 224.0.0.0/24 link-scope prefix will be issued.
109This behaviour is recommended if deploying
110.Fx
111in a network environment with layer 2 devices which snoop IGMP traffic
112to mitigate multicast propagation throughout the network.
113This sysctl is normally enabled by default.
114.\"
115.It net.inet.igmp.sendra
116If this variable is non-zero, then IGMP v2 and v3 reports will contain
117the IP Router Alert option.
118This sysctl is normally enabled by default.
119.\"
120.It net.inet.igmp.recvifkludge
121If this variable is non-zero, then received IGMP reports which contain
1220.0.0.0 as their source will be rewritten to contain the subnet address.
123This is useful when there are hosts on-link which have not yet been
124configured with a primary IPv4 address.
125This sysctl is normally enabled by default.
126.\"
127.El
128.Sh SEE ALSO
129.Xr ifmcstat 8 ,
130.Xr inet 4 ,
131.Xr multicast 4 ,
132.Xr netstat 1 ,
133.Xr sourcefilter 3
134.Sh HISTORY
135The
136.Nm
137manual page re-appeared in
138.Fx 8.0 .
139