[Xorp-users] Problem with Xorp passing BSR messages
Bruce Simpson
bms at incunabulum.net
Thu May 7 08:26:57 PDT 2009
Hi Mark,
Sorry for my late reply...
Williams, Mark wrote:
> I will be deploying Xorp on Linux systems soon to handle multicast routing with PIM-SM. Everything has worked well, but I have had problems with bootstrap router messages. In my testing, I used two Alcatel-Lucent routers and an Xorp system. Each router had two interfaces, and were in a chain in Alcatel - Xorp - Alcatel order.
>
> When the Xorp box was configured as the candidate BSR, the Alcatel routers both picked up the Xorp box as the BSR after the election time passed.
>
It wouldn't surprise me if there were cobwebs in the Cand-BSR
mechanisms, but as Syed has said, it would need to be reproduced in a
lab situation to better understand the problem and how to fix.
thanks,
BMS
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