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November 29, 2011  1:29 AM

How Rendezvous Points (RP) Chosen in Auto-RP Multicast Domain?



Posted by: Sulaiman Syed
auto-rp, CCIE, Cisco, dense, how, MA, multicast, Rendezvous Point, RP, sparse

IP Multicast can work on Dense, or Sparse Mode. Dense, where all multicast traffic is flooded out of all the interfaces other than the one it came from (split horizon). It is easy to configure, and there are no planning with it. The down side is, it might create congestion in the network. Specially...

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