Enabling PIM passive mode

About PIM passive mode

To guard against PIM hello spoofing, you can enable PIM passive mode on a receiver-side interface. The PIM passive interface cannot receive or forward PIM protocol messages (excluding register, register-stop, and C-RP-Adv messages), and it acts as the DR on the subnet. In BIDIR-PIM, it also acts as the DF.

Restrictions and guidelines

To avoid duplicate multicast data transmission and flow loop, do not enable this feature on a shared-media LAN with multiple PIM devices.

Procedure

  1. Enter system view.

    system-view

  2. Enter interface view.

    interface interface-type interface-number

  3. Enable PIM passive mode on the interface.

    pim passive

    By default, PIM passive mode is disabled on an interface.