All things related to multicast

[John Zwiebel <>]

I agree with you shep.  Except now you assume the network was
 planned thoroughly and you leave no room for easily changing
 things.

YAHOO.  The folks on this list have to make their own choices.
 Each of the options outlined have pluses and minuses.

The "best" option is still SSM.  ;-)  (I know you agree with that.)

On 9/4/02 2:44 PM, "Greg Shepherd" 
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 wrote:

> 
>> Small enterprises, with few routers may find static RP the right way.
>> 
>> Any enterprise larger than 20 routers, will want to use either
>>  the BSR or auto-RP to provide management.  And if they are growing
>>  and getting reconfigured often, then again, BSR or auto-RP
> 
> I disagree. Having MORE routers releying on BSR or Auto-RP sounds MUCH
> worse than having only a few.. Setting aside a pool of /32s used for
> RouterIDs is just part of good network design. Pick one
> of them as your RP address and it should NEVER need to change. Sure, it
> may move to a different router, but the /32 RP address stays the same.
> Then setting static RP mapping for this /32 into every router is no more
> work than setting-up and other RP mapping mechanism. AND the extreme
> reduction in trouble-shooting time down the road will be greatly
> appreciated.
> 
> Think 'reduction in complexity' and sleep well. ;-)
> 
> Greg
> 
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