[c-nsp] [cans] Auto-RP or Anycast?

[Brant I. Stevens]

Why wouldn't you do both; using Auto-RP to announce the Anycasted-RP for
specific groups?


 4/13/06 10:09 AM, "Arie Vayner" <ariev at vayner.net> wrote:

> 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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