I have a need to run Source Specific Multicast (PIM-SSM) over a network which otherwise only supports Any Source Multicast (PIM-SM).
I understand it's only required that the "last hop router" actually be SSM aware. What's unclear to me however is what the last hop router means. Does this mean, given the diagram below only the router closest to the receiver <Router 1> would need to understand a (S,G) join directly from the host and everyone in the middle wouldn't care -- or must <Router 3> also understand SSM? I would think router 3 would just think it's an ASM SPT join and this would work, but I'm not sure. Multicast traffic will only ever flow one direction, from sender to receiver. <Receiver>--<Router1>--<Router2>--<Router3>--<Sender> Thanks! _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
