Web Management Guide

Table Of Contents
Chapter 19
| Multicast Routing
Configuring PIM for IPv4
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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
18
– 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.
Web Interface
To display information about the BSR:
1.
Click Routing Protocol, PIM, SM.
2.
Select Show Information from the Step list.
3.
Select Show BSR Router from the Action list.
18. These parameters are based on RFC 5059.