[c-nsp] Auto-RP or Anycast?

Arie Vayner ariev at vayner.net
Thu Apr 13 10:09:45 EDT 2006


Using anycast RP allows for the whole thing to reconverge at the speed
of the IGP (if the anycast RP address is in the IGP). Auto-RP would
converge much slower, and is much more complex in the background...

Arie

On 4/13/06, Michael Robson <Michael.Robson at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Use anycast and yes run msdp between your rps.
> >
> > Robert McCallum CCIE #8757 R&S
> >
> Thanks for that: is that just personal choice or is there
> a good reason (other than auto-rp being Cisco proprietary
> and so not very useful across a multi-vendor domain)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael Robson.
>
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