[c-nsp] IOS XR and router rib rump always-replicate

[Mattias Gyllenvarg]

About that, Oliver, is multicast-BGP production ready in IOS ans IOS XR.
Specifically ASR9k, 7606 Sup720, ME3600X and 3560/3750?

Whould be nice too remove PIM from the core, just as Gert says limited use
= limited support.


On 1 March 2013 19:23, Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 02:56:07PM +0100, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> > I haven't tried to get "Internet multicast" working for a few years,
> > basically because nobody used it. We had it working via transit and a few
> > peers a few years back, I have no idea if it works now or not.
>
> Our experience: it doesn't.  We turned it off with our upstreams a few
> years back, because every time someone wanted to use it for real
> ("every few months") we found that some upstream changes had broken
> it again, like "turning up new links but forgetting PIM on them" and
> such.
>
> And debugging this is a major nightmare, as you need clueful people
> to look at every single step.  Which, unfortunately, neither of our
> then-upstreams were able to provide ("we do not see a problem, can
> we close the case?").
>
> gert
>
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