Alcatel-Lucent 6850-48 Guida Di Riferimento

PIM Commands

OmniSwitch CLI Reference Guide

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Configures the local router as the Candidate-BSR for the PIM domain. 

ip pim cbsr ip_address [priority priority] [mask-length bits] 

no ip pim cbsr ip_address

Specifies the 32-bit address that the local router uses to advertise itself 
as a Candidate-BSR.

Specifies the priority value of the local router as a Candidate-BSR. The 
higher the value, the higher the priority. Values may range from 0 to 
255.

Specifies a 32-bit mask length that is advertised in the Bootstrap 
messages (the length of the mask is used in the hash function when 
computing the Rendezvous Point (RP) for a multicast group).Values 
may range from 1 to 32.

OmniSwitch 6850, 6855, 9000, 9000E

• Use the no form of this command to remove the local routers candidature as the BSR.

• This command is supported only in the sparse mode.

• The information configured using this command is used in the Bootstrap messages.

• Candidate-BSRs also avoid a single point of failure in a PIM domain.

-> ip pim cbsr 50.1.1.1 priority 100 mask-length 4

Release 6.3.1; command was introduced.

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