[c-nsp] Passive pim interface

[Marian Durkovic]

On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 09:01:05AM +0300, Pekka Savola wrote:
> On Tue, 16 May 2006, Sergey Velikanov [Intelsoft] wrote:
> > Brandon Bennett wrote:
> >> Wouldn't passive interface be the same as turning pim off for his vlan
> >> interface?   I am not quite sure I understand what you want.
> ...
> >  if I turn off pim on interface vlan3 users in client's net lost ability to watch ipTV.
> 
> Yes, implementations typically require PIM to be enabled to be able to 
> use multicast on the interface.

  What's the reason behind this? Wouldn't it make more sense to have the 
possibility to enable IGMP-only on enduser ports and thus prevent any
PIM/DVMRP processing?


	With kind regards,

		M.