Re: PIM SM rendezvous point

From: Stephen Sprunk (ssprunk@cisco.com)
Date: Fri Mar 01 2002 - 09:34:59 EST


Thus spake "Tom Scott" <telecomtom@dacor.net>
> Multicasters,
>
> We're trying to get PIM SM running to support enterprise-wide
> conferencing, using a static rendezvous point. According to the
> documentation, we shouldn't have to configure the ip pim rp-addr command
> on the RP:
> http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/105/48.html
> "The RP discovers that it is the RP because all the other routers are
> pointing to it as their RP and are subsequently sending registers to it.
> "
>
> However, we get the following error message on the RP (10.108.1.1):
> 00:23:26: %PIM-6-INVALID_RP_JOIN: Received (*, 239.255.80.75) Join from
> 10.108.1.2 for invalid RP 10.108.1.1
>
> When we insert "ip pim rp-addr 10.108.1.1" on the RP, then the error
> messages stop. Is the documenatation simply mistaken, or more likely,
> are we forgetting to do something simple?

The documentation reflects the original behavior; unfortunately the
promiscuous policy turned out to be problematic and a static definition is
now required on the RP as well.

S



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