Re: Why do mapping agents need to be connected to all PIM

From: Hobbs (deadheadblues@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Jul 28 2008 - 19:43:33 ART


btw, I did get it to work with GRE tunnel between the non-hub MA and the
regular PIM spoke. I made these two PIM neighbors over the GRE tunnel.

Just wondering why it is necessary even when you have the scope argument.

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Hobbs <deadheadblues@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Referring to this doc:
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/solutions_docs/ip_multicast/White_papers/frm_rlay.html
>
> It says that:
>
> "All candidate RPs must be connected to the MA.
> All MAs must be connected to all PIM routers."
>
> Why is the necessary? Isn't this why we have the scope argument on the
> send-rp-announce and send-rp-discovery commands?
>
> Suppose you have a spoke configured as an RP-candidate or MA, are there
> workarounds to make it work?
>
> Thanks,

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