From: Snow, Tim (timothy.snow@eds.com)
Date: Tue Jul 08 2003 - 01:56:22 GMT-3
Hey Jim.
The problem is is that not all frame clouds are fully meshed. Picture this
HUB
|
/ \
A B
Site A is ptp and site B is PTP but the HUB is physical. If Site A sends a
prune to the Hub, the spoke B would never hear the PIM Prune so it wouldn't
know it needed to send a prune override if it still wanted to receive the
multicast stream. With NBMA-mode, the hub keeps track of each of the
neighbors and in your "sh ip mroute" it would be possible to have one
neighbor in "prune" state while the other is in "forward" mode.
Check out the following link, has all the good information you need.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/tech/tk828/tk363/technologies_white_paper
09186a00800d6b61.shtml
Cheers!
Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Phillipo [mailto:jim.phillipo@guardent.com]
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 7:22 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: IP PIM NBMA Mode
From what I have read this is an option to improve performance but not
necasarry for Multicast to function over Frame etc. Am I correct in this
assumption ?
Jim Phillipo, CCNP, CCDP
Sr. Internetworking Engineer
W: 401.456.1821 F: 401.456.0599 M: 508.982.8923
90 Royal Little Drive, Providence, RI 02904
www.guardent.com
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