Re: Verifying SSM

Thanks for all the quick feedback.
As you mentioned it is important that the receiver knows the sender (I
needed a router with that capability on the igmp join). Also I had
overlooked the basic fact that the multicast group needs to be within
the SSM range.

-Rich

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> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Rich Collins
> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 11:31 AM
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> Subject: Verifying SSM
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> Hi,
>
> While looking at the vrf-lite multicast thread I revisited SSM.
>
> How does one about testing SSM? I suppose you need to generate an
> igmpv3 join but the ping to the multicast group is normally igmpv2...
> Is there a method with "ip sla"?
>
> Thanks
> Rich
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Received on Wed Mar 09 2011 - 14:10:33 ART