Pim6sd daemon and global addresses

SUZUKI, Shinsuke suz at freebsd.org
Thu May 1 11:20:00 UTC 2008


Hello,

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Ian Brown <ianbrn at gmail.com> wrote:

>  from man pim6sd:
>  "pim6sd requires the node running the daemon to have an IPv6 global
>  address.".
>  Does that mean that it must have an IPv6 address which
>  it address has a global type?
 >  Namely, must it be an address which starts with a global prefix, like
>  2001::....?
Yes. That's because some of a PIM-SM protocol message
(PIM-Register/Register-Stop) requires a global unicast address.
#In some cases PIM-Register/Register-Stop is not used.  As it is
#not always so obvious, pim6sd requires a global unicast address.

>  Second: is there a way to prevent the pim6sd daemon to send the PIM
>  hello messages, which it does regularly ?
Please specify the following command in your pim6sd.conf, where xxx is
the interface name you want to  disable PIM-SM.
     phyint xxx disable;

Thanks.
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SUZUKI, Shinsuke


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