Subject: RE: clarification

From: "Shekhar, Ravi" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 11:22:46 -0500

> >         Hi,
> >                      Can multiple Multicast Routing 
> Protocols run on an Interface? if yes, is there any such 
> implementation?

Usually not, unless there is some cordination between the routing 
protocols themselves (like sparse-dense mode of PIM). 
For instance one problem could be, if the two multicast protocols 
running on the same interface happen to choose different upstream 
routers to get the data, router will end up receiving duplicate data.

- Ravi Shekhar.

> 
> Sabari,
> 
> Althugh I haven't it running myself, I cannot tell what could 
> be wrong with it. The routing protocols use different protocol
> types / numbers, so that part is safe. And each of the 
> implementations (pimd, mrouted, ...) just manipulates the multicast
> routing tables. The kernel just forwards / routes using this 
> very same table so there shouldn't be a problem too.
> 
> - Wilbert
> 
>