发表于:2007-11-14 14:25:00
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Recently I heard about a CEO who became quite agitated when his office network traffic crawled to a standstill due to his control network.
In the field of Industrial Ethernet, a common task is protecting the control network from traffic originating in the office or corporate network. Usually the control network has equipment that must operate reliably — with control messages delivered on time and error-free. Office traffic can wreak havoc in the control network, but sometimes the situation is reversed; your control network can interfere with your office network — much to the consternation of people you'd rather not offend.
As EtherNet/IP and other protocols using multicast messaging have proliferated in control networks, traffic issues have appeared. End devices can create a lot of multicast traffic. It is important (sometimes crucial) to specify devices to receive this traffic to avoid overwhelming a network. IGMP snooping (available on many managed switches) can direct multicasts to only the devices needing it, but a switch without IGMP snooping will flood such messages to all ports.
EtherNet/IP join messages are handled by all IGMP snooping switches that use information in the messages to determine which ports will get the multicast data — restricting multicasts to only devices that expect them. For this scheme to work, one or more switches or routers in the network must provide IGMP queries to periodically ask end devices to subscribe to multicasts. Without the IGMP query function, IGMP snooping switches will eventually forget their multicast-handling strategies and received multicasts will flood the network. Because the IGMP query is critical to IGMP snooping, it is recommended that multiple switches in the EtherNet/IP network have the query ability.
Some people successfully use port security (aka port locking) to keep corporate traffic from the control network, but IGMP snooping is the preferred solution. Both IGMP snooping and IGMP querier functions are available on all managed switch products from Contemporary Controls. More about IGMP snooping can be found at:
www.ctrlink.com/pdf/abc9.pdf