[Xorp-hackers] PIM-SM4: Cand-RP and Cand-BSR Inconsistency

[Pavlin Radoslavov]

Samuel Lucas Vaz de Mello <samuellucas at datacom.ind.br> wrote:

> Pavlin Radoslavov wrote:
> > The second one is not really an option, because we never propagate
> > state back to the rtrmgr/xorpsh.
> > I think the correct behavior is the third one: reuse the created
> > zone and merge the changes (if possible).
> > The first one (replace the automatically created zone with the user
> > provided one) might result in losing the Cand-RP state, which we
> > definitely want to avoid.
> > 
> >>> What do you recommend?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> BTW, after writing a patch how do I submit it? Just mail it to this list?
> > 
> > Please open a Bugzilla entry about the issue and add te patch to
> > that entry.
> > 
> 
> Done. Bugzilla entry #803 with patch attached.

Fixed in CVS. Note that the problem was deeper: it could be
triggered even if the user tried to update the PIM Bootstrap
configuration at runtime via xorpsh.

Thanks,
Pavlin