[Xorp-users] Problem with Xorp passing BSR messages

[Bruce Simpson]

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