Subject: Re: DVMRP Prunning on routers unable to forward

From: Bill Fenner <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 13:48:26 PDT

>How things actually work in such a case?

The traffic never gets pruned.  This is one of the big disadvantages of
TTL scoping, and is one example why administratively scoped groups is
more useful.

  Bill

BTW, DVMRP doesn't flood the first packet - it broadcasts it on a tree
built with the route exchange.