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IP PIM - Sparse Mode and controlling group registrations...

tmoffett
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

Given the following scenario:

A large corporate network is configured for IP multicast routing using PIM Sparse mode only.

In an effort to limit multicast traffic on the network, each router has only a static RP mapping for the group range 239.0.0.0 0.0.0.255. No other RPs exist on this network.

If a client or source attempts to perform an IGMP join for a group outside of the 239.0.0.0 range, will the registration fail at the first hop, or will the group fall back to dense mode?

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Harold Ritter
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

Yes it would fallback to dense. Configuring PIM sparse-mode on all interface where multicast is needed should take care of this issue. sparse-dense is not required since you are using static RP.

Hope this helps.

Harold Ritter
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