All things related to multicast

[Peter John Hill <>]

On Feb 5, 2010, at 8:17 AM, Laura Kristoff wrote:

> Wondering if anyone has any advice on the best place to 
> locate RP's.  We are currently using our core routers but
> are considering moving them to our route reflectors.  We
> are using anycast RP for both locally scoped groups and
> global groups but different routers for local vs global.
> 
> The SPT seems to get built pretty quickly so not sure
> what requirements we need beyond MSDP (for anycast RP)
> and PIM and some amount of CPU.

Personally, I'd consider placing the RP in the core. A recent build of mine 
configured all six of our core routers as anycast RPs/msdp peers.

I'd think that the route reflectors are likely best left for doing bgp 
calculations.

YMMV. Good luck!

peter




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