Specifications

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Appendix B Cisco MWR 2941 Router Command Reference
ip pim rp-candidate
Command History
Usage Guidelines This command causes the router to send a PIM Version 2 message advertising itself as a candidate RP
to the BSR. The addresses allowed by the access list, together with the router identified by the type and
number, constitute the RP and its range of addresses for which it is responsible.
Use this command only in backbone routers that have good connectivity to all parts of the PIM domain.
That is, a stub router that relies on an on-demand dialup link to connect to the rest of the PIM domain is
not a good candidate RP.
When the interval keyword is specified, the candidate RP advertisement interval is set to a value
specified by the seconds argument. The default interval is 60 seconds. Reducing this interval to a time
of less than 60 seconds can reduce the time required to fail over to a secondary RP at the expense of
generating more PIM Version 2 messages.
Examples The following example shows how to configure the router to advertise itself as a candidate RP to the
BSR in its PIM domain. Standard access list number 4 specifies the group prefix associated with the RP
that has the address identified by Ethernet interface 2. That RP is responsible for the groups with the
prefix 239.
ip pim rp-candidate ethernet 2 group-list 4
access-list 4 permit 239.0.0.0 0.255.255.255
Related Commands
Release Modification
11.3T This command was introduced.
12.1(2)T The bidir keyword was added.
12.0(23)S The vrf keyword and vrf-name argument were added.
12.2(13)T The vrf keyword and vrf-name argument were added.
12.2(14)S This command was integrated into Cisco IOS Release 12.2(14)S.
12.2(18)SXE Support for this command was introduced on the Supervisor Engine 720.
12.2(27)SBC This command was integrated into Cisco IOS Release 12.2(27)SBC.
12.2(33)SRA This command was integrated into Cisco IOS Release 12.2(33)SRA.
12.2(33)MRB This command was integrated into Cisco IOS Release 12.2(33)MRB. This
release does not support the bidir keyword.
Command Description
ip pim bsr-candidate Configures the router to announce its candidacy as a BSR.
ip pim rp-address Configures the address of a PIM RP for a particular group.
ip pim send-rp-announce Uses Auto-RP to configure for which groups the router is
willing to act as RP.