[Xorp-users] XORP 1.5 PIM_HELLO from a specific interface IP

[Ben Greear]

On 09/26/2012 06:28 AM, sumi wrote:
> Hi All,
> Is there a way to force the PIM to use a specific interface IP to send the PIM_HELLO messages? Or is it by design that it uses the lowest interface IP?
>
> I have few alias IP's configured in my XORP router and it always uses the smallest IP's in the list to send the PIM_HELLO.
> Looked around some of the documents and release notes of XORP 1.5, it documents:
>
>   LIBXIPC:
>      - Bug fix in the internal mechanism for obtaining the IPv4 addresses
>        from the system. After the bug fix, a secondary (alias) IP address
>        can be specified with the "-i <addr>" command-line option to
>        the xorp_rtrmgr or xorp_finder binaries.

That comment doesn't apply to PIM I think, just the xorp internal process
communication API.

Not sure there is a way to do what you want in the current code...

Thanks,
Ben


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