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From: John Kristoff <>
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Subject: Re: Using DR priority for low latency forwarding
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:11:36 -0600

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:35:26 -0800 (PST)

wrote:

> Setting DR priority will only set which router win's DR election -
> overriding the normal IP-based election.
>
> If you want faster DR failover, tweak down the PIM hello timers.
> This is what is used for a candidate DR to determine that the elected DR
> is either alive or dead.

OK, thanks. I guess that will have to do. I thought that I might
be able to gracefully migrate the DR to another interface, which would
magically move PIM state by issuing the associated joins and prunes, but
I guess that is just asking for too much magic. :-)

John

Using DR priority for low latency forwarding, John Kristoff, 11/30/2004
- Re: Using DR priority for low latency forwarding, shep, 11/30/2004
  - Re: Using DR priority for low latency forwarding, John Kristoff, 11/30/2004
    - Re: Using DR priority for low latency forwarding, Stig Venaas, 11/30/2004
      - Re: Using DR priority for low latency forwarding, shep, 11/30/2004
    - Re: Using DR priority for low latency forwarding, shep, 11/30/2004
    - Re: Using DR priority for low latency forwarding, shep, 11/30/2004
      - Re: Using DR priority for low latency forwarding, John Kristoff, 11/30/2004
- Re: Using DR priority for low latency forwarding, Peter John Hill, 11/30/2004

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