[c-nsp] Auto-RP or Anycast?

[McCallum, Robert]

Use anycast and yes run msdp between your rps.  

Robert McCallum CCIE #8757 R&S
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net 
> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Michael Robson
> Sent: 13 April 2006 13:19
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [c-nsp] Auto-RP or Anycast?
> 
> I am about to reconfigure multicast routing for our network 
> to have 2 rendezvous points on the 2 routers that contain the 
> 2 links into the network from the WAN. I was after opinions 
> as to whether people would choose the use of auto-rp or 
> anycast to advertise the fact that the PIM domain has 2 RPs. 
> If I were to go with anycast, then would I need to MSDP peer 
> these to RPs together?
> If I were to use auto-rp, are there any disadvantages to 
> moving to PIM sparse-dense mode from sparse mode so that the 
> auto-rp groups don't have to be statically configured on each router?
> 
> Ta 
> 
> Michael Robson.
> 
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