All things related to multicast

[Dan Pritts <>]

Based on the way I read the original poster's question, i assume that
unicast works in this environment regardless of which switch is the
vrrp master (gets confusing when these devices are both layer 2 and 3).
If that's the case then i would hope that multicast would work too, again
regardless which switch is the master.

I would expect that in a VRRP configuration, the VRRP "master" (I don't
know the correct VRRP terminology) would also be the IGMP querier.

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 01:15:04PM -0400, Jerry R. Cody wrote:
> 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.
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> 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
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