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Re: Two questions



Marc Greis <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have two small (?) questions:
> 
> 1) I am still looking for a way to find out if a certain node is a leaf
> node in a multicast tree or to query multicast routing in general. If 
> the '$routelogic lookup' function worked for multicast routing, it would 
> be very simple, but it only seems to work for unicast and multipath.
> Is there any way to do that (I guess there has to be a way, or how else
> would packets 'know' that they have reached the end of a multicast
> tree)?

Leaves do not have any forwarding state.  There could be a multicast
forwarding cache entry, but no active replicators.

> 2) It seems as if the classes 30 and 31 are 'reserved' for Prune
> packets in most multicast protocols. Are there other reserved classes
> like that? And if so, is there a list somewhere?

Since this is a hack, it is likely to change in the future.  "class"
is the same as flowid.

  -Yuri.