RE: Auto-RP Question

From: Brian McGahan (bmcgahan@internetworkexpert.com)
Date: Thu Sep 28 2006 - 12:58:21 ART


        Some IOS versions will not allow candidate-rp messages or
mapping agent messages to be originated from non-PIM interfaces. In
order to ensure compatibility between versions you *should* enable PIM
on the Loopback interface if you are sourcing auto-rp messages from it.

HTH,

Brian McGahan, CCIE #8593
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf
Of
> Mohamed Saeed
> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 7:01 AM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Auto-RP Question
>
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> Should I enable IP PIM under the loopback interface of the RP router
or
> the mapping agent?
>
>
>
> I have tested with / without enabling "ip pim sparse-dense" mode. I
have
> found that in both cases, the multicast traffic is delivered smoothly.
I
> wonder if somebody has gone through this.
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Mohamed Saeed, CCNP - CCIP
>
>



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