On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 00:17:07 +0200, Andre Oppermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> I've attached an Ethereal machine to the TIX switch and watching
> what is going on (broad- and multicast) for the past five hours.

> The only stuff I still see being broad-/multicasted is ARP (surprise!),
> PIMv2 and IGMP (why?). 

I guess those are the IGMP "general queries" (periodic or during
startup of a router) to find out if there are members for any group on
the link and to (re-)elect the IGMP querier for the link.

--
Alex

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