![]() Indicating the configured PIM Rendezvous Point (RP) in the MSDP SA message The RFC-3618, section 12.2.1, describes the fields included in the MSDP SA message. The "RP address" field is "the address of the RP in the domain the source has become active in". In the most common case, we will establish an MSDP connection from RP to RP. However, there are cases where we want to establish a MSDP connection from an interface/address that is not the RP. Section 3 of RFC-3618 describes that scenario as "intermediate MSDP peer". Moreover, the RP could be another router in the PIM domain - not the one establishing the MSDP connection. The current implementation could be problematic even with a single router per PIM domain. Consider the following scenario: * There are two PIM domains, each one with a single router. * The two routers are connected via two independent networks. Let's say that is to provide redundancy. * The routers are configured to establish two MSDP connections, one on each network (redundancy again). * A multicast source becomes active on the router 1. It will be communicated to router 2 via two independent MSDP SA messages, one per MSDP connection. * Without these changes, each MSDP SA message will indicate a different RP. * Both RP addresses will pass the RPF check, and both MSDP sources will be accepted. * If the router has clients interested in that multicast group, it will send PIM Join messages to both RPs and start receiving the multicast traffic from both. With the changes included in this commit, the multicast source available in router 1 would still be communicated to router 2 twice. But both MSDP SA messages would indicate the same RP, and one of them would be discarded due to failure in the RPF-check failure. Also, the changes allow us to define the RP that will be included in the MSDP SA message, and it could be one of the interfaces used to establish the MSDP connection, some other interface on the router, a loopback interface, or another router in the PIM domain. These changes should not create compatibility issues. As I mentioned, we usually establish MSDP connections from RP to RP. In this case, the result will be the same. We would still indicate the address used to establish the MSDP connection if the RP is not set - I wonder if that should even be a valid configuration. Signed-off-by: Adriano Marto Reis <adrianomarto@gmail.com> |
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FRRouting
FRR is free software that implements and manages various IPv4 and IPv6 routing protocols. It runs on nearly all distributions of Linux and BSD and supports all modern CPU architectures.
FRR currently supports the following protocols:
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