Subject: PIM Asserts (DM)

From: "Tony Ballardie" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 17:14:28 +0100

I'm reading some Cisco documentation which says the
Assert winner prunes the assert intf (assuming no group
members), and the prune times out after 3 mins.

It doesn't explicitly say a prune is also sent upstream, though
the scenario shows it could (the familiar triangle of routers,
2 serving a LAN). I'm wondering if the assert winner doesn't
send a prune upstream, why not?

Also, why is the prune on the assert intf fixed at 3 mins?
Aren't PIM prunes configurable?

thanks

Tony