[Xorp-users] Problem with Xorp passing BSR messages

Syed Khalid syed.khalid at xorp.net
Thu May 7 09:16:31 PDT 2009


Bruce
  This bug was closed as it appeared to be an Alcatel bug (bug 1071).
Syed

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Bruce Simpson <bms at incunabulum.net> wrote:

> 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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