All things related to multicast

[Leonard Giuliano <>]

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Lappa, Joseph wrote:

-) Questions are:
-)
-)   What is the prefered method these days determining RP?  Anycast-RP or
-) BSR?
-)

I wouldn't recommend BSR (or AutoRP) to my enemies.  Static Anycast RP
gives you all the benefits of BSR/AutoRP without any of their
disadvantages.  Namely, BSR/AutoRP add a whole lot of complexity and
moving parts that can break.  Anycast is much simpler, converges faster,
easier to t-shoot, etc, which is why you will find the vast majority of
folks using it.

I agree with Toerless.  Having more than 2 or 3 Anycast RPs in the setup
you described will not add anything.  MSDP is a very ugly protocol, so the
fewer boxes you run it on the better.