All things related to multicast

[Jay Ford <>]

On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Tim Ward wrote:
> Quoting Marshall Eubanks 
> ():
> >
> > Is it assuming that auto-RP will create a RP in this (assumed
> > CISCO) domain ? But then, shouldn't it require setting PIM to "sparse 
> > dense" ?
>
> Thanks, Marshall, it seems I'm not insane!

I wouldn't go that far, Tim.  ;^)

> > In any case, it seems to me that the cookbook should address the care and
> > feeding of RP's.
>
> I think you're right there.
>
> Currently you have three options that I know of for RP:
>
> Auto-RP -- cisco specific requires PIM sparse-dense within a PIM domain
> BSR -- not cisco specific allows for PIM sparse within a PIM domain
> Anycast RP -- not cisco specific but requires MSDP between RPs

I think MSDP between RPs is required with any scheme where there are multiple
RPs.  (Anycast is the easy way, but there are other ways to have multiple
RPs.)

> Any others that should be added?

As I said a few minutes ago, I favor anycast with the RP address statically
configured on the non-RP routers.

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