IGMP Snooping Explained (By Someone It Actually Burned)

IGMP snooping is on almost every switch you own — and it can silently kill multicast. A real carrier-side outage, what actually happened, and the one-line fix. Chapters: 0:00 Cold open 0:42 Why multicast exists 1:40 What IGMP snooping actually does 3:03 The failure mode 6:03 The fix 7:26 Recap 15 years on the carrier side of enterprise networking. New video weekly — what the certs teach, and what they don't.