Re: Query about the Amount of Multicast State information

On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 12:21 AM, Yuri Bank <yuribank_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Each (S,G) has multiple timers, outgoing interface list that may be
> constantly changing etc.... Overall, an entry in the mroute table could
> require a lot of overhead in the control-plane. A BGP route on the other
> hand is basically stateless, a prefix is learned and installed into the
> RIB, nothing else happens with it until the neighbor it was learned from
> goes down or an update is received.
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> -YuriB
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> On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 2:45 AM, Adesh Chaudhary <
> er.adeshchaudhary_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Folks,
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>> The amount of State information (especially S,G) seems like a big concern,
>> when I am referring to Multicast texts / trainings.
>> I am unable to understand why? I mean Unicast routing table can handle
>> full
>> BGP prefix information. Then why is "Large amount of Multicast State
>> information (S,G) considered such a big deal"?
>> Can't the Multicast table handle it? OR What?
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>> Please let me know about your views on this. I am not able to get it.
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Thanks Yuri, Agreed to your point regarding maintenance operations on
MROUTE table. Now I get it better.
Cheers!

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