HP MSR ASM Configuration Manual page 58

A BSR serves as the administrative core of the PIM-SM domain. A PIM-SM domain can have only one BSR,
but can have multiple C-BSRs. If the BSR fails, a new BSR is automatically elected from the C-BSRs to
avoid service interruption. A device can serve as a C-RP and a C-BSR at the same time.
As shown in Figure 21, each C-RP periodically unicasts its advertisement messages (C-RP-Adv messages)
to the BSR. A C-RP-Adv message contains the address of the advertising C-RP and the multicast group
range that it serves.
The BSR collects these advertisement messages. It then chooses the appropriate C-RP information for
each multicast group to form an RP-set. The RP-set is a database of mappings between multicast groups
and RPs. The BSR then encapsulates the RP-set in the BSMs that it periodically originates and floods the
bootstrap messages to the entire PIM-SM domain.
Figure 21 BSR and C-RPs
Based on the information in the RP-sets, all routers in the network can calculate the location of the
corresponding RPs based on the following rules:
1. The C-RP with the highest priority wins.
2. If all the C-RPs have the same priority, their hash values are calculated through the hashing
algorithm. The C-RP with the largest hash value wins.
3. If all the C-RPs have the same priority and hash value, the C-RP that has the highest IP address wins.
The hashing algorithm used for RP calculation is "Value (G, M, C
& M) + 12345) XOR C
Table 7 Values in the hashing algorithm
Value Description
Value Hash value.
G IP address of the multicast group.
M Hash mask length.
C IP address of the C-RP.
i
& Logical operator of "and."
XOR Logical operator of "exclusive-or."
Mod Modulo operator, which gives the remainder of an integer division.
) + 12345) mod 2 31 ."
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) = (1 103515245 * ( (1 103515245 * (G
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