Re: Multicast AnyCast + MSDP

the Anycast RPs are used for Redundancy and loadbalancing....so you will
need more than one of these RP....

the MSDP is used to exchange the SA messages and to make sure that if one
of them fails the other can take over..

Martin

2015-04-30 17:48 GMT+02:00 Cisco Fanatic <ebay_products_at_hotmail.com>:

> Experts, I am really confused as when to configure AnyCast and when to
> configure MSDP.
>
> I have this lab setup where I have two RPs configured. I have 4 routers
> statically configured with these two RP addresses. The clients behind the
> routers are receiving multicast stream.
>
> As I have configured RPs statically on the 4 routes, I do not have any
> form of load balancing and Redundancy of RPs. Correct?
>
> I was reading Cisco documentation where I am getting confused ..
>
> a) Do I only need to configure AnyCast for load balancing and Redundancy
> of RPs?
> b) Do I only need to configure MSDP for load balancing and Redundancy of
> RPs?
> c) Do I need to configure AnyCast + MSDP for load balancing and Redundancy
> of RPs?
>
> Not clear on the concept as when do we need AnyCast vs Anycast + MSDP?
>
> Hoping some smart gents and women can clear my doubt.
>
> -yuri
>
>
> Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
>
> _______________________________________________________________________
> Subscription information may be found at:
> http://www.groupstudy.com/list/CCIELab.html

Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
Received on Thu Apr 30 2015 - 20:41:36 ART