[Xorp-hackers] [Xorp-users] Xorp Router with ISP (RP discovery?) - ISP not supporting PIM
Ben Greear
greearb at candelatech.com
Wed Apr 28 08:10:35 PDT 2010
On 04/28/2010 07:37 AM, saurabh wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I have two ISP for my multi-cast experiment
>
> 1) wireless broadband (eth3)
> 2) wired broadband (ppp0)
>
> -ForWireless ISP I even can't see any IGMP/PIM message
> over ppp0 interface (with tcpdump -i ppp0) after ppp0 get connected.
Xorp isn't sending any messages at all on ppp0? Maybe it only uses
mcast on broadcast interfaces (such as Ethernet).
> -with wired broadband: (eth3)
> For Wired ISP I can't see any PIM message but I could see IGMP queries !
> means ISP not running PIM-SM on their router.
> They are not willing to provide information on their multicast setup !
I think if the upstream won't run multicast routing, there isn't much you
could do locally to fix the problem.
Thanks,
Ben
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Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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