From: Bays John (bays_john@xxxxxxx)
Date: Mon Jan 22 2001 - 15:45:43 GMT-3
Darnit... change the works ethernet address to IP address below.
John
Bays John wrote:
> Sorry if I don't answer your question, but there is very little information t
o
> work on; I'll just post the theory I have:
>
> From RFC 2236, IGMP Version 2 (And yes, I do read the RFC's... I think
> everyone should!)
>
> "All multicast routers start up as a Querier on each attached network. If a
> multicast router hears a Query message from a router with a lower IP address,
> it MUST become a Non-Querier on that network."
>
> In english, it means, on a broadcast medium (ethernet), only one router shoul
d
> respond to join and leave requests (and be responsible for membership), this
> is the one with the lower IP address on the segment.
>
> I would hazard a guess tht your R2's ethernet address is lower than R1's
> ethernet address.
>
> John
>
> "Padhu (LFG)" wrote:
>
> > I tried a similar setup over the weeekend ...I have R1 and R2 on ethernet
> > with R1 as the hub
> > and have r3 and r4 as spokes all joining 225.5.5.5 in sparse dense on all
> > router's ethernet ...when i ping from the spokes i always get ping response
> > ONLY from R2's ethernet ..If i shut R2's ethernet then R1's ethernet
> > responds ....any Ideas ? Why is that R1 doesn;t respond but the next nop
> > farther away from it responds ..
> >
> > Cheers,Padhu
> >
> >
>
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