Hello Chris, While those commands provide basically the same thing (rp location) they are actually different in the fact that they support 2 different auto-rp methods. The ip pim send-rp-announce lo0 scope 10 command actually is used with the Cisco proprietary method while the ip pim rp-candidate lo0 is used with the Bootstrap router method which is standards based. Let me know if you guys think differently!
> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:36:49 -0400 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [OSL | CCIE_RS] vol 1, lab 24 (Multicast) > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Winston Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > > Can anyone tell me the difference between the commands "ip pim > > send-rp-announce > > lo0 scope 10" and "ip pim rp-candidate lo0". It seems to me that tasks 24.2 > > and > > 24.13 are asking for essentially the same thing, but two different > > approaches > > were taken. Is there a key concept that I should have picked up on to chose > > one > > method over the other? Thanks! > > Different approaches: > rp-candidate is BSR configuration. > send-rp-announce is Auto-RP > > The key distinction between them IMO is that I've never seen BSR used > in a real network, but I've seen lots of Auto-RP. > > /chris > _______________________________________________ > For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please > visit www.ipexpert.com _______________________________________________ For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please visit www.ipexpert.com
