[Xorp-hackers] Cand-rp hold time and priority in bootstrap message is being sent as 0 on ppc

[Ben Greear]

On 05/06/2011 02:41 AM, Naidu Sai-B22341 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have compiled and brought up xorp-1.6 on a power pc platform.
>
> I have used a small setup to test xorp with one RP and one DR.
>
> Host1 (sender)-----------RUT1 (RP)---------RUT2(DR)------------------Host2 (receiver)
>
> I made the required configuration to get RUT1 to be the RP and RUT2 be the DR for a group.
>
> The multicast traffic got routed correctly when I used STATIC RPs. But when I tried to get the RP elected through bootstrapping, the routing failed.
>
> After going through the bootstrap packets capture, I found that the cand-rp hold time and priority value were always being sent as zero. This happens
> irrespective of the values given in the config.boot file.
>
> Even when no values are given for the cand-rp hold time and priority, the default value being sent in the bootstrap message is 0.
>
> But when I replaced the powerpc boards with X86 PCs(with the same configuration files), traffic was getting routed correctly. The bootstrap messages had the
> correct (default) values for cand-rp hold time and priority.
>
> Has anybody faced similar issue? Could this be an endian issue?
>
> Could anybody suggest a fix or point me to the location in the xorp code where this copy happens.

Please try the top-of-tree xorp and see if the problem still exists.  I don't think anyone
is actively working on xorp 1.6 code anymore.

https://github.com/greearb/xorp.ct

Thanks,
Ben

>
> Thank you.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sai Naidu
>
>
>
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