[c-nsp] HSRP/multicast help

[Alexander Clouter]

Hi,

Dale W. Carder <dwcarder at wisc.edu> wrote:
> 
> On Sep 18, 2009, at 3:04 AM, Alexander Clouter wrote:
>>
>> I personally remove the standby priorities from the VLAN configs as  
>> the
>> 'active' router will be the one with the higher IP address...which is
>> *also* the rule for PIM.
>>
>> What is probably happening is the PIM router for the subnet is your
>> standby router and you are being hit with a lot of reverse path
>> filtering issues[1].
> 
> Also, in addition to the higher ip address tiebreaker, you can
> set the DR priority:
> 
> primary:
>  ip pim dr-priority 4294967294
> 
> standby:
>  ip pim dr-priority 2147483647  (or whatever)
> 
> This is very helpful if someone attaches a pim speaking device
> and your ip addresses are at the bottom of the range rather than
> the top.
> 
I like it, any reason I cannot use 4294967293 on the standby?

Cheers

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