[Xorp-users] Simple configuration

Pavlin Radoslavov pavlin@icir.org
Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:47:24 -0800


> I don't know if a simple PIM-SM is what I need ?
> As I said I am new and unexperienced in these things.
> 
> A quick explanation of what I am after is this.
> 
> I have a Linux box on a network, I want to add a seperate network card to the
> box and pass only multicast messages between the two network cards, nothing
> else.
> 
> Is Xorp my best solution. I don't want to have any other routers involved if I
> can help it.

I don't know whether XORP is the best solution (the answer depends
on your criteria for _best_ :)), but it is _a_ solution.

If you are to use XORP, you would have to use one of the two options
I described in my previous email to fix the problem. Either:
(a) configure your router as a static RP
OR
(b) configure your router as a Cand-BSR and a Cand-RP
Among those two options I  would recommend the static RP, because it
doesn't have the startup latency.

Other non-XORP solutions that come to mind are pimdd
(PIM-DM implementation, available from
http://www.antc.uoregon.edu/PIMDM/pimd-dense.html), and mrouted
(DVMRP implementation; search the Web for a pointer).

Regards,
Pavlin