Re: EIGRP multicast TTL

cisco does the same thing with RIP...

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Garry L. Baker
"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine..." - RFC 1925
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Aaron Riemer <ariemer_at_amnet.net.au> wrote:
> Hi guys,
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> I have been doing some work with EIGRP and I notice the TTL for the
> multicast hello packets is set to '2'.
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> Is this to cater for NBMA hub & spoke style deployments where the hub will
> resend the multicast hello out to each spoke?
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> "[Expert Info (Note/Sequence): "Time To Live" > 1 for a packet sent to the
> Local Network Control Block (see RFC 3171)]"
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> RFC 3171 doesn't seem to shed much light on this.
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> Cheers,
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> -Aaron.
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