On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:15:50PM +0000, António Amaral wrote: > Dear All, > > After draft-ietf-pim-sm-bsr-05.txt there is a section > > ---- > 3.5. Unicasting Bootstrap Messages to New and Rebooting > Routers > > To allow new or rebooting routers to learn the RP-Set > quickly, when a > Hello message is received from a new neighbor, or a Hello > message with a > new GenID is received from an existing neighbor, one > router on the LAN > unicasts a stored copy of the Bootstrap message for each > admin scope > zone to the new or rebooting router. > (....) > -------- > > What is the motivation for this behaviour? With a common > bootstrap message new router also learn the RP-Set > quickly, am I right? > In my opinion when a new router placed on the LAN sends a > PIM Hello message, one router on the LAN could simply send > a bootstrap message and new router also learn the RP-Set > quickly.
That's what happens. The text in bsr spec, does exactly what you write above. When a new router send a PIM hello, an existing router may unicast a BSM to it. Stig > > Thanks in advance > Best Regards > > AA > -------------------------------------------------------- > António Manuel Nunes C. Amaral > Instituto de Telecomunicações - Pólo de Aveiro > Campus Universitário > 3810-193 AVEIRO - PORTUGAL > Telef. 234 - 377900 > Fax. 234 - 377901 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Telef. directo. 234 - 377906 > --------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
