I think if asked it would be a multicast. Ran into a problem with updates
dropping of because of a misconfig on a switch that was blocking multicasts.
If Im wrong someone please correct me :)
L Morgan Redd, CCNA
----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Zhao Meng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Newsgroups: groupstudy.cisco
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 4:01 AM
> > Subject: multicast or unicast?
> >
> >
> > > i am confused on communication type of ospf point-to-multipoint
network
> > > packet .
> > >
> > > 2 descriptions from jeff dolye's routing tcp/ip vol1 are as follow:
> > >
> > > page417,2nd paragragh
> > > routers on these networks(point-to-multipoint networks) do not
> > > elect a dr and bdr , and because the networks are seen as
> > > point-to-point links, the ospf packets are multicast.
> > > ~~~~~~~~~~
> > > page451,4th paragragh
> > > on point-to-multipoint and virtual link networks,updates(link
> > > state update) are unicasted to the interface addresses of the
> > > ~~~~~~~~~
> > > adjacent neighbors.
> > >
> > > which one is correct? or both?
> > >
> > > thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Regards,
> > > Zhao Meng.
> > > CCNA,MCSE,MCP+I
> > >
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