IGMP and PIM protection

Scott Morris swm at emanon.com
Wed Dec 23 14:26:44 UTC 2009


But IGMP IS the control traffic with users.  And PIM IS the control
traffic between multicast routers.

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Scott

Glen Kent wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Dobbins, Roland <rdobbins at arbor.net> wrote:
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>> On Dec 23, 2009, at 6:41 PM, Glen Kent wrote:
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>>> Any idea if folks use AH or ESP to protect IGMP/PIM packets
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>> What are you trying to 'protect' them against?
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> Just integrity protection to ensure that my reports, etc. are not
> mangled when i recv them. OR to make sure that i only receive
> reports/leaves from the folks who are supposed to send them.
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> Please note that i am NOT interested in encrypting the control traffic.
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> Kent
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>> Roland Dobbins <rdobbins at arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com>
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>>    Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
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