Subject: Multicast Address

From: "Rajnish Madan" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:35:16 +0530

HI,

Section 5.2.2 of rfc 2338 says
"Routers must not forward a datagram with this destination address (224.0.0.18) regardless
of its TTL"

Is the packets its talking about is the advertisement packets/or any packets destined like ping 224.0.0.18.

In my implementation, if I ping to 224.0.0.18, then all the virtual routers listening on the Multicast Address
replies. Is it all right.

How can i ensure that the router is not forwarding the packets ment for 224.0.0.18

Thanks in advance
Rajnish