From: Abdallah Al-Suwailem (aalsuwailem@myrealbox.com)
Date: Tue Nov 26 2002 - 18:07:51 GMT-3
Thanks for you answer but how can I choose specific router to be the
first RP and if it fails i want the bsr to choose another specific
router ?? I mean is there any way to control the algorithem ??
Thanks
Abdallah
Sam.MicroGate@usa.telekom.de wrote:
>A multicast router configure with the ip pim bsr-candidate statement will
>listen to all advertisement by the multicast routers configured with ip pim
>rp-candidate. Then it forms a list composed of all RPs. The bsr router will
>advertise this list of rps to all multicast routers. Then all multicast
>router will pick the rp form this list. The algorithm for choosing the rp
>will make all multicast routers pickup the same rp. If the chosen rp fails
>and the hold time passes, all multicast routers will pick the second router
>in the rp list.
>
>Sam
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Abdallah Al-Suwailem [mailto:aalsuwailem@myrealbox.com]
>Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 4:30 PM
>To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>Subject: RP redunduncy in PIM ver 2
>
>
>Hello
>
>In PIM ver 1, if you configure more than one router as RP "ip pim
>rp-annouce", the highest ip address will be elected as RP. What about
>PIM ver 2 "ip pim rp-candidate", how to do redundancy and how the
>election will occur?
>
>Abdallah
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