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["Jerry R. Cody" <>]

This seems normal to me, I have some 8600 and Alteon switched firewalls in
my core network using VRRP between the firewalls. In short either Switch A
or B will be active via VRRP not both. In my situation I am not using IGMP
and multicasting but have it setup where there are 2 firewall switches each
going to the 8600 core with VRRP. The default route is the virtual IP so
depending which switch is acting as the master A or B determines what
switch/firewall passes the traffic. I suspect the same would be true for
IGMP related traffic - unless I misunderstand what you are saying.

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Subject: Question on expected behavior.

Hi,
        I have a question on what should be expected behavior for 
PIM/IGMP.

I have a source which sits behind two switches that are running vrrp. 

Switch A IP: 10.1.1.9
Switch B IP: 10.1.1.10
Virtual IP:      10.1.1.11.

I also have some users that are directly connected to Switch A, and Switch 
B.  For some odd reason all users that are connected to Switch A can 
receive the stream.
Everyone connected to Switch B cannot.  The funny thing is that if I 
single home the same source onto switch A it works fine.  If I single home 
the src to Switch B it works fine.  The only time it has issues is if they 
are in this VRRP configuration.

Question: 
Because Switch A is the IGMP designated router, does that mean Switch B 
should stop responding to any requests for that Group? even though its 
directly connected to that group? 

Or is this another Bug?  Both switches are Nortel 8600's.

Thanks
Anand