Re: Destination address in v2 leave message

Hi Hitoshi,

         Yes. Querier need not be a multicast data forwarder. But are you suggesting that a forwarder who is not a IGMP querier process the leave message? If yes, what action do they take?

         As per RFC 2236, non-querier should be using group specific queries to lower down the group timer instead of leave messages.

Regards,
Bharat

PS: Sorry for not able to reply inline.
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From: Hitoshi Asaeda [[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 9:00 AM
To: Bharat Joshi
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [magma] Destination address in v2 leave message

Hi,

>          Leave message is sent to ALL-Routers address because host
> does not keep track of the querier.
>
>          If host needs to keep track of querier, it will have to
> implement querier election algorithm and maintain a state with
> querier-timeout etc. which is unnecessary.

And also, querier is not always forwarder.

Regards,
--
Hitoshi Asaeda

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