RE: Multicast helper

From: Richard Dumoulin (richard.dumoulin@vanco.es)
Date: Tue May 11 2004 - 18:37:48 GMT-3


This is the scenario I am talking about. I suppose you are referring to the
case where the first hop router is receiving a directed broadcast vs a local
broadcast.

--Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt [mailto:matt_ccie_2004@yahoo.com]
Sent: martes, 11 de mayo de 2004 23:11
To: Richard Dumoulin; ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: Multicast helper

Depends on the scenario. You could have two
non-multicast capable endpoints in which case they are
both using directed broadcast.

broadcast-->multicast--->broadcast

matt

--- Richard Dumoulin <richard.dumoulin@vanco.es>
wrote:
> The doc-cd
>
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122cgcr/fipr
> _c/ipcpt3/1cfmulti.htm#1002616
>
<http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122cgcr/fip
> r_c/ipcpt3/1cfmulti.htm#1002616> says to configure
> "ip directed-broadcast"
> on both the first hop router and the last hop
> router. I think I have read
> somewhere else that it's only needed on the egress
> interface of the last hop
> router. This is because it is on this interface that
> the directed broadcast
> is going out.
> So who is right ?
>
> --Richard
>
>



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