[c-nsp] Forcing "point-to-point" PIM operation over Ethernet

[Benjamin Lovell]

Can't speak to the traps as I am not an NMS/SNMP guy but PIM does not have a P2P network designation. DR is elected for all PIM neighbor associations. 

-Ben


On Oct 6, 2010, at 5:42 PM, John Neiberger wrote:

> We have a bunch of multicast devices connected to dozens of gigabit
> ethernet interfaces. Because it is Ethernet, a PIM DR is elected.
> These devices occasionally go in and out of service at an
> administrative level. When the device becomes administratively active
> again, a PIM DR election occurs again. For some reason, and Cisco TAC
> doesn't have an answer for this, this causes a link up/down trap for
> that interface to be sent to our NMS, which pages our on-call people.
> Very annoying. I'd like to find a way to have these Ethernet links
> treated as point-to-point links, but I see no such command.
> 
> Can anyone here think of a way to do this? I'd really like to stop the
> whole DR election since we can't figure out how to stop the traps.
> 
> Any thoughts?
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