RE: PIM DM & 224.0.1.40

By enabling PIM, you automatically become a listener for auto-rp. Happens
with sparse, dense, and sparse-dense. Although sparse-dense is the only
place where auto-rp will actually have any effect, or sparse mode along with
"ip pim autorp listener".

David

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Vladislav Vaslev (vvasilev_at_vvasilev.net)
> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 9:24 AM
> To: ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
> Subject: PIM DM & 224.0.1.40
> 
> Hello Networkers!
> 
> I have a pure dense mode network (not sparse-dense) without any active
> senders/receivers. Despite this I have the following in the mroute
> table (on
> all
> routers).
> 
> (*, 224.0.1.40), 01:55:45/00:02:27, RP 0.0.0.0, flags: DCL
> B  Incoming interface: Null, RPF nbr 0.0.0.0
> B  Outgoing interface list:
> B B B  Ethernet0/0, Forward/Dense, 01:55:15/00:00:00
> B B B  Ethernet0/1, Forward/Dense, 01:55:40/00:00:00
> B B B  Serial0/0.1, Forward/Dense, 01:55:45/00:00:00
> 
> What could be making the routers to hold this record in their mroute
> tables?
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Regards,
> V.Vasilev
> 
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