Re: mroute needed for dense mode?

From: Jian Gu (guxiaojian@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Nov 16 2006 - 23:41:26 ART


1) router will do RPF check for each multicast packet, irrelavent whether it
is PIM sparse or dense.
2) you have "ip igmp join-group" configured, which will make the router
behave like a host, once a multicast packet is received it will be consumed
by CPU.

On 11/16/06, Michael Zuo <mzuo@ixiacom.com> wrote:
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> Hi Group,
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> I have a couple of possible stupid questions: if I have:
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> R1--------------------------------------------------------R2
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> e0/1 e0/0 150.1.12.x/24 e0/0 e0/1
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> R1:
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> interface Tunnel0
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> ip address 10.0.0.1 255.0.0.0
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> ip pim dense-mode
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> tunnel source Ethernet0/0
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> tunnel destination 150.1.12.2
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> !
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> interface Ethernet0/0
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> ip address 150.1.12.1 255.255.255.0
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> !
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> interface Ethernet0/1
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> ip address 150.1.14.1 255.255.255.0
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> ip pim dense-mode
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> ip igmp join-group 239.1.1.1
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> R2:
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> interface Tunnel0
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> ip address 10.0.0.2 255.0.0.0
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> ip pim dense-mode
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> tunnel source Ethernet0/0
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> tunnel destination 150.1.12.1
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> !
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> interface Ethernet0/0
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> ip address 150.1.12.2 255.255.255.0
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> !
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> interface Ethernet0/1
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> ip address 150.1.23.2 255.255.255.0
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> ip pim dense-mode
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> Rack1R2(config-if)#do ping 239.1.1.1 source e0/1
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> Type escape sequence to abort.
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> Sending 1, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 239.1.1.1, timeout is 2 seconds:
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> Packet sent with a source address of 150.1.23.2
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> Reply to request 0 from 10.0.0.1, 108 ms
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> My questions are:
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> 1. for R1's e0/1 to talk to R2's e0/1 via multicast dense mode, do I
> need "ip mroute 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 tunnel 0" configured on both routers?
> (ie, does dense mode do RPF checks. In my mind, it should not because
> the router should just forward dense mode packets to all the interfaces
> that it did not come in on)
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> 2. how come 10.0.0.1 is responding but not e0/1 on R1?
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> Thanks for your help...
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