LevelOne GTL-2691 User Manual

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| Multicast Routing

Configuring PIMv6 for IPv6

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Priority – Priority value used by this BSR candidate.

Hash Mask Length – The number of significant bits used in the

multicast group comparison mask by this BSR candidate.

Expire – The time before the BSR is declared down.

Role – Candidate or non-candidate BSR.

State

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– Operation state of BSR includes:

No information – No information is stored for this device.

Accept Any – The router does not know of an active BSR, and will

accept the first bootstrap message it sees as giving the new BSR's

identity and the RP-set.

Accept Preferred – The router knows the identity of the current

BSR, and is using the RP-set provided by that BSR. Only bootstrap

messages from that BSR or from a C-BSR with higher weight than

the current BSR will be accepted.

Candidate BSR – Bidding in election process.

Pending-BSR – The router is a candidate to be the BSR for the RP-

set. Currently, no other router is the preferred BSR, but this router

is not yet the elected BSR.

Elected BSR – Elected to serve as BSR.

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To display information about the BSR:

1.

Click Routing Protocol, PIM6, PIM6-SM.

2.

Select Show Information from the Step list.

3.

Select Show BSR Router from the Action list.

14. These parameters are based on RFC 5059.

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