OSPF and its use of Multicast

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When it comes to OSPF and its use of multicast, am I correct in believing that IGMP forwarding and an IGMP querier is still required within the local segment?



My understanding would be without this, the frames would be treated as a broadcast and sent to everyone. Therefore removing the benefit of using multicast.



Based on this is there any mechanism for it to fall back to unicast, to prevent the above. Apologies if my understanding here is way off : )






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    When it comes to OSPF and its use of multicast, am I correct in believing that IGMP forwarding and an IGMP querier is still required within the local segment?



    My understanding would be without this, the frames would be treated as a broadcast and sent to everyone. Therefore removing the benefit of using multicast.



    Based on this is there any mechanism for it to fall back to unicast, to prevent the above. Apologies if my understanding here is way off : )






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      When it comes to OSPF and its use of multicast, am I correct in believing that IGMP forwarding and an IGMP querier is still required within the local segment?



      My understanding would be without this, the frames would be treated as a broadcast and sent to everyone. Therefore removing the benefit of using multicast.



      Based on this is there any mechanism for it to fall back to unicast, to prevent the above. Apologies if my understanding here is way off : )






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      When it comes to OSPF and its use of multicast, am I correct in believing that IGMP forwarding and an IGMP querier is still required within the local segment?



      My understanding would be without this, the frames would be treated as a broadcast and sent to everyone. Therefore removing the benefit of using multicast.



      Based on this is there any mechanism for it to fall back to unicast, to prevent the above. Apologies if my understanding here is way off : )






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          The benefit of multicast is that hosts not subscribing to the multicast group ignore frames they receive that are sent to the multicast group. With broadcast, they cannot ignore the frames.



          The OSPF multicast group is a link-local multicast that gets sent to every switch interface, even with IGMP snooping enabled on the switch. OSPF only uses multicast on broadcast networks, and it is necessary in order to use DR and BDR, which are only on broadcast networks. For point-to-point links, OSPF uses unicast, and for non-broadcast networks you use the neighbor statement and it uses unicast.






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            The benefit of multicast is that hosts not subscribing to the multicast group ignore frames they receive that are sent to the multicast group. With broadcast, they cannot ignore the frames.



            The OSPF multicast group is a link-local multicast that gets sent to every switch interface, even with IGMP snooping enabled on the switch. OSPF only uses multicast on broadcast networks, and it is necessary in order to use DR and BDR, which are only on broadcast networks. For point-to-point links, OSPF uses unicast, and for non-broadcast networks you use the neighbor statement and it uses unicast.






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              The benefit of multicast is that hosts not subscribing to the multicast group ignore frames they receive that are sent to the multicast group. With broadcast, they cannot ignore the frames.



              The OSPF multicast group is a link-local multicast that gets sent to every switch interface, even with IGMP snooping enabled on the switch. OSPF only uses multicast on broadcast networks, and it is necessary in order to use DR and BDR, which are only on broadcast networks. For point-to-point links, OSPF uses unicast, and for non-broadcast networks you use the neighbor statement and it uses unicast.






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                The benefit of multicast is that hosts not subscribing to the multicast group ignore frames they receive that are sent to the multicast group. With broadcast, they cannot ignore the frames.



                The OSPF multicast group is a link-local multicast that gets sent to every switch interface, even with IGMP snooping enabled on the switch. OSPF only uses multicast on broadcast networks, and it is necessary in order to use DR and BDR, which are only on broadcast networks. For point-to-point links, OSPF uses unicast, and for non-broadcast networks you use the neighbor statement and it uses unicast.






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                The benefit of multicast is that hosts not subscribing to the multicast group ignore frames they receive that are sent to the multicast group. With broadcast, they cannot ignore the frames.



                The OSPF multicast group is a link-local multicast that gets sent to every switch interface, even with IGMP snooping enabled on the switch. OSPF only uses multicast on broadcast networks, and it is necessary in order to use DR and BDR, which are only on broadcast networks. For point-to-point links, OSPF uses unicast, and for non-broadcast networks you use the neighbor statement and it uses unicast.







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