RE: PIM BIDIR

Based on what interface the multicast packet was received on. The RP sets
the root of the tree and that is all in BiDir. I like to think of BiDir as
Spanning-Tree for IP Multicast, with the RP being the root.

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> Hans None
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> All,
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> 
> When a non RP router received a mcast packet, where should the router
> forward
> the packet? Toward the RP or toward the mcast group OIL?
> 
> 
> My question is, how will a non RP router pin point its own position?
> Whether
> it was in the path from the source to RP or from RP to the destination
> group?
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> Thanks,
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> 
> Hans
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