From: Eagle (ddycus@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Oct 10 2007 - 15:51:33 ART
Sounds like a perfect question for proctor clarification to me.
On 10/10/07, CCIEin2006 <ciscocciein2006@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello friends,
>
> When given a requirement such as "you must be able to ping the multicast
> group from all routers", does the ping have to be successfull when sourced
> from all interfaces or will any interface do?
>
> The reason I am asking is because when you do a ping to a multicast group
> from a router without specifying any options, it automatically generates a
> separate icmp packet from each interface that has PIM enabled, correct?
>
> Therefore when I get an echo reply from the multicast receiver all I know
> is
> that at least one of the pings made it....
>
> So if I were in the lab would I have to do an RPF check to every single
> router interface to make sure there are no RPF failures somewhere in the
> topology?
>
> Thank You
>
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