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Re: IGMP and PIM protection

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Morris)
Wed Dec 23 09:30:27 2009

Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:26:44 -0500
From: Scott Morris <swm@emanon.com>
To: Glen Kent <glen.kent@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <92c950310912230619i6e9f71fchd42867cae5774571@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: swm@emanon.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

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

?


Scott

Glen Kent wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Dobbins, Roland <rdobbins@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.
>
> Kent
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>> Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com>
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>>    Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
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>>                        -- H.L. Mencken
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