I read this a different way.  I interpreted the author's 
discussion of "physical multicasting" to mean multicast 
routing.  Multicast routing can be turned on and off individual 
interfaces.  Moreoever, when you get to the discussion on CCO 
about optimizing multicast routing, there is this section:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios11/c
book/ciproute.htm#xtocid16743149

I agree the wording could be better.  As far as disabling 
multicast from an interface, my gut reaction would be, why 
would you want to?

HTH,

Paul Werner



> On Cisco's site, I've been searching for information as to 
when the
> hello
> interval is set to 5 seconds and when it is set to 60 
seconds.  Hellos
> are
> sent every 5 seconds except on low-speed, NBMA media.  Low-
speed is
> defined
> as 1.544 Mbps and under.  No problems there.
> 
> What I don't understand is this statement:
> 
> "Note that for the purposes of EIGRP, Frame Relay and Switched
> Multimegabit
> Data Service (SMDS) networks may or may not be considered to 
be NBMA.
> These
> networks are considered NBMA if the interface has not been 
configured to
> use
> physical multicasting; otherwise they are not considered 
NBMA."
> 
> How can you configure an interface not to use multicasting?  
This is
> something I haven't come across how to do yet.  Is this 
configuring
> EIGRP
> multicasts to use unicasts (I think I saw something like that 
last night
> but
> I was too tired to comprehend it or even remember where I saw 
it).
> 
> 
>   -- Leigh Anne

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