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[(Kevin C. Almeroth)]

>>I am seeing an issue with the 'bursty' frequency of the sdr announcers and
>>it's relationship to setting up and maintaining mroute state.  It appears
>>to me that the mroute state is being torn down by a built in Cisco 
>>IOS timeout of 3minutes; this coupled with that many sdr announcers are
>>announcing with a greater than 3minutes separation is causing
>>cascaded/edge sites to miss many sdr announcements.

As Bill points, given that MSDP is supposed to carry that first "n" data
packets, can you explain what might be happening that would lead you
to say MSDP is in fact NOT handling bursty sources correctly?

-Kevin