[Xorp-hackers] metric used by pim-sm

Pavlin Radoslavov pavlin at icir.org
Wed Jan 31 11:34:09 PST 2007


shamita pisal <shamita1010 at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi,
> We am implementing PIM-Bidir module in Xorp.Could you please tell us the
> metric used by PIM-SM as implemented in xorp.These metrics are stored in
> mrt/mrib table.

Those metrics are used by the PIM protocol when comparing the PIM
Asserts and declaring the PIM Assert winner.

If the fib2mrib module is used to populate the MRIB table (which
probably is the case because currently is the only option), then
those metrics come from the kernel.

Regards,
Pavlin



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