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[Jan Novak <>]

> 
> Do you have any statistics that would help see which direction the
> majority of the traffic on the mbone99<>fmbone MSDP peering was flowing?

If you mean normal mcast traffic, this was only in direction from Mcast99 to 
FMBONE,
don`t have any stats from the FMBONE2 - FR connection though.

> I think mbone99 would be flooding towards fmbone the SA's that it
> got from NL, and if the check to reject SA's from itself was failing
> (buggy), fmbone might forward them further around the loop.

I put the MSDP peering back for a moment, here is the last output:

Mcast99#sh ip ms peer 212.1.195.58
MSDP Peer 212.1.195.58 (renater-de2.mcast.ten-155.net), AS 1717
Description: 
  Connection status:
    State: Up, Resets: 0, Connection source: none configured
    Uptime(Downtime): 00:09:11, Messages sent/received: 329/545
    Output messages discarded: 0
    Connection and counters cleared 00:09:11 ago
  SA Filtering:
    Input filter: 166, route-map: none
    Output filter: none, route-map: none
  SA-Requests: 
    Input filter: none
    Sending SA-Requests to peer: enabled
  Peer ttl threshold: 0
  Input queue size: 0, Output queue size: 0
Mcast99#

Jan