[FROG] PIM-BSM implementation in FRR

[Donald Sharp]

Phil -

I think there is a general plan to do this.  We just don't have a hard
date.  If someone wants to take this up just let us know if you need
any help :)

donald

On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 8:42 AM Phil Wiggins <phil.wiggins at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Saravanan, Sarita and Rajesh:
>
> Great work!  Is the plan to add the self-election in a subsequent update?  It would be great to have an RFC5059 implementation for a group of FRR routers to self-elect.  A part of my network would benefit hugely from having this function.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Phil
>
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>
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> On Mon, 3 Jun 2019 at 08:37, Donald Sharp <sharpd at cumulusnetworks.com> wrote:
>>
>> All -
>>
>> Recently an implementatation of PIM-BSM was pushed into the master
>> branch of FRR.  This first release of this feature is slightly limited
>> in it's scope, in that PIM routers can listen and respond to BSM PIM
>> messages but cannot self-elect to make themselves an RP.  By default
>> this functionality is turned on.  To turn it off issue a `no ip pim
>> bsm` command from the cli.  Further documentation can be found at
>> http://docs.frrouting.org/en/latest/pim.html
>>
>> I'd like to thank Saravanan, Sarita and Rajesh for their work on
>> getting this in.
>>
>> thanks!
>>
>> donald
>>
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