From: Kenneth Wygand (KWygand@customonline.com)
Date: Tue Jul 20 2004 - 20:30:03 GMT-3
Gerry,
My opinion... If "one is asked to configure sparse mode", hey, you'd better be configuring SPARSE mode... not Dense mode, not Sparse-Dense mode, but SPARSE mode... This is just my opinion.
However, take a look at the following command in the Doc CD:
"ip pim auto-rp listener"
It may answer some of your question for things that previously "required" dense-mode...
HTH,
Ken
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From: nobody@groupstudy.com on behalf of Gerry Hilton
Sent: Tue 7/20/2004 7:12 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Multicast - Sparse Mode
Hi there. A few questions about multicast and sparse mode:
If one is asked to configure sparse mode, then is it valid to configure
ip pim sparse-dense mode and have a known RP, as then the interfaces
would be treated as sparse mode (this would be if there was a case where
just configuring sparse mode would not meet all requirements)?
If the interfaces are configured as sparse-dense and the RP is known
via auto-RP, then are they still considered to be acting in sparse
mode? If not, then is the only way to know the address of the RP and
still be considered sparse mode, to manually configure the RP address on
each router?
This is only in the case where one requires the interfaces to be
configured in sparse-dense mode but treated as sparse.
Thanks,
Gerry
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