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Hello, and welcome to discovering the RP.
In this skill, we're going to look at different ways
that our PIM routers can discover where the RP is,
which, of course, is necessary when operating in sparse mode.
As we mentioned during our discover multicast
routing skill, there are several ways
that we can discover where the RP is.
So we're going to discuss those in this skill in much
more detail.
So first, we'll start by talking about a static configuration.
This is actually fairly straightforward.
We're just going to be manually configuring the RP's
address on each of the devices.
So we'll take a look at the pros and cons of that choice.
Second, we'll take a look at a Cisco proprietary feature
called Auto-RP.
This is a way to dynamically find the RP in our environment,
and it allows for a bit of redundancy.
Then we'll move on to BSR, or Bootstrap
Router, which is an industry standard
equivalent for Auto-RP.
Now, of course, they function a little bit differently
and we will discuss that.
However, they perform the same basic job.
And then we'll wrap up with not really a way
of discovering the RP, so to speak,
but sort of a way of running the RP, which is anycast RP.
This allows for some different types of redundancy
and load-sharing, and this can be combined with any
of these other choices.
So we can still discover with either static, Auto-RP, or BSR
but still run our RP using anycast.
So as you can see, there's a lot of fun stuff in here
we have to talk about.
Let's go ahead and jump in.
I'll see you in the next video.