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Date:      Sat, 7 Dec 1996 23:26:09 +0200 (EET)
From:      Andrew Stesin <stesin@gu.net>
To:        Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MROUTING & gated
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.961207232216.23028E-100000@creator.gu.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.94.961207012131.28524A-100000@misery.sdf.com>

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No. If I'm understanding correctly,
OSPF uses multicast only over directly connected links
and doesn't need these packets to be forwarded (I even think
OSPF will break if they _will_ be forwarded :)

It works without MROUTING anyway, that's from my experience,
not form the damn theory. :-)

On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, Tom Samplonius wrote:

> Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 01:23:44 -0800 (PST)
> From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
> To: hackers@freebsd.org
> Subject: MROUTING & gated
> 
> 
>   In order for gated to handle ospf properly, does MROUTING need to be
> enabled in the kernel?
> 
>   tcpdump reveals that gated sends ospf HELO requests to 224.0.0.5
> 
> Tom
> 

--
		Best,
			Andrew Stesin

		nic-hdl: ST73-RIPE




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