[Xorp-users] Cand-RP is ignored

[Pavlin Radoslavov]

> On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 09:11:43AM +0200, Carsten Otto wrote:
> > It was an old (but then recent) CVS version. The crash was the old "too
> > much memory" problem we already discussed. This problem never appeared
> > again after the university enabled the right multicast routing (there
> > was some mistake in the next hop). As far as I understand it Xorp always
> > behaves incorrectly when it receives a lot of packets (here: 160
> > MBit/sec at this time) and does not know where to put them, because no
> > RP is known for these groups.
> 
> That information is wrong, sorry. When no RP is there I just get a lot
> of messages about that. When there _is_ a RP, but not the right one (I
> get "stop" messages), the described problem appears. In my case the RP
> is far away and should not be used by me anyway. In the case of this
> other university with a 224.0.0.0/4 RP the problem reappeared with the
> same results.

Thanks for the info. I will get a look into the issue when I get the
chance. Though, I would recommend you to open a bugzilla entry so
the info doesn't get lost. If possible, please add the related log
messages you see.

Thanks,
Pavlin