Multicast / the multicast group (IEWB lab8)

From: Andy (trung@vnsystem.net)
Date: Fri Jul 29 2005 - 06:22:42 GMT-3


Hi,
i'm doing task 7.3 -7.6 lab 8 in IEWB.
This states that R1 should anounce its loopback as a candidate RP via Auto-rp
and R3 should map all multicast groups with event numbered first octet to R1.

Ok, the question is clear enough and this is my answer:

R1:
!
interface Loopback0
ip pim sparse-dense-mode
!
ip pim send-rp-announce Loopback0 scope 16

R3:
interface Loopback0
ip pim sparse-dense-mode
!
ip pim send-rp-discovery Loopback0 scope 16
!
ip pim rp-announce-filter rp-list R1_RP group-list R1_GROUPS
!
ip access-list standard R1_GROUPS
permit 224.0.0.0 14.255.255.255
!
ip access-list standard R1_RP
permit 150.1.1.1
!

And when looking at solution guide, i see this:

R3

!

interface Loopback0
ip pim sparse-dense-mode
!
ip pim send-rp-announce Loopback0 scope 16 group-list 1 interval 5
!
access-list 1 permit 0.0.0.0 254.255.255.255

R3:
interface Loopback0
ip pim sparse-dense-mode
!
ip pim send-rp-discovery Loopback0 scope 16
!
ip pim rp-announce-filter rp-list R1_RP group-list R1_GROUPS
!
ip access-list standard R1_GROUPS
permit 0.0.0.0 254.255.255.255
ip access-list standard R1_RP
permit 150.1.1.1

Ok, two things i want to clarify here are:

1- The access list that match multicast group.

permit 0.0.0.0 254.255.255.255 from SG
vs

permit 224.0.0.0 14.255.255.255 is mine.

I don't have a rack to test at the moment but i believe the two of them will
work fine. However, which one do you think will be prefered ? The acl that
match exactly the multicast score is "better", isn't it ?

2- Do we have to apply R1_Group to both RP in send-rp-annouce and MA in
rp-annouce-filter command ? or it's only needed to configure rp-annouce-filter
on the mapping agent ? And there's no word about changing annouce interval,
why put interval 5 in there ?

Comments are welcome.

Andy



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