Mapping agent in auto-rp

Hi All,

  I have a question on auto-rp mapping agent.If there are 2 RPs advertising
themself as RP for a group,the RP with highest IP address would be choosed
as RP for that group(Please correct me if I am wrong) by mapping
agent.Similarly is there a mechanism from whom the multicast domain
router/switches would hear about the RP from(I mean from which mapping
agent).Atleast when I labbed it up,it doesn't seems have correlation with
highest ip address for which mapping agent would be source of information
about RP for a group.

Kindly clarify the same.

Thanks for the assistance

Regards
Anantha Subramanian Natarajan

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Received on Wed Sep 30 2009 - 12:38:19 ART