All things related to multicast

[Bill Nickless <>]

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At 09:42 PM 1/17/2001 -0500, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
>One thing that's not clear to me is - was the RP in the afflicted
>domains involved ?

Yes.  The RP was involved, as it converted the PIM Register packets into 
MSDP SAs for redistribution.

A rate limit (set on the RP) on the number of MSDP SAs generated would have 
reduced the impact of this event.
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