All things related to multicast

[David Farmer <>]

This depends a lot on the details of the architecture of your network 
and other things like a router's normal processor load.  Border Routers, 
Route Reflectors, Core or Backbone Routers all seem like logical 
candidates.  Edge or Leaf routers are probably not good candidates.

An example, because of our use of VRFs the only real option for us is 
our Border Routers, this is necessary to facilitate Multicast between 
our VRFs.

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.
>
> --Laura


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