Re: BSR RP Election , which RP wins?

From: Narbik Kocharians (narbikk@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Jun 24 2007 - 01:34:11 ART


No worries, its not your problem, 2 many docs out there, and unfortunately
some of them are real confusing.

On 6/23/07, Eric Poulin <epoulins@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> My bad. I just looked in the IETF draft and it says the following:
>
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-pim-sm-bsr-10.txt
>
> The Priority field in these messages is used by the BSR to select which
> C-RPs to include in the RP-Set. Note that lower values of this field
> indicate higher priorities, so that a value of zero is the highest
> possible priority. C-RPs should by default send C-RP-Adv messages with
> the Priority field set to 192.
>
>
> Sorry for the confusion.
> Eric
>
> --- Eric Poulin <epoulins@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > The previous link I sent was not clear. Here's another one:
> >
> >
>
> http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122cgcr/fipr_c/ipcpt3/1cfmulti.htm
> >
> > To avoid a single point of failure, you can configure several candidate
> BSRs in a PIM
> > domain. A BSR is elected among the candidate BSRs automatically; they
> use bootstrap
> > messages to discover which BSR has the highest priority.
> >
> > The candidate RPs follow the same election process.
> >
> > --- Eric Poulin <epoulins@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > > The highest priority wins the election.
> > >
> > > http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/105/57.html
> > >
> > > --- Narbik Kocharians <narbikk@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Lower priority wins the election.
> > > >
> > > > On 6/23/07, louis john <west_coast@inbox.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Is the lower priority RP wins or the higher one ?
> > > > >
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