Administrator Guide

Figure 84. MSDP with Anycast RP
Configuring Anycast RP
To configure anycast RP, use the following commands.
1. In each routing domain that has multiple RPs serving a group, create a Loopback interface on each RP serving the group with the
same IP address.
CONFIGURATION mode
interface loopback
2. Make this address the RP for the group.
CONFIGURATION mode
ip pim rp-address
3. In each routing domain that has multiple RPs serving a group, create another Loopback interface on each RP serving the group with a
unique IP address.
CONFIGURATION mode
interface loopback
4. Peer each RP with every other RP using MSDP, specifying the unique Loopback address as the connect-source.
CONFIGURATION mode
ip msdp peer
5. Advertise the network of each of the unique Loopback addresses throughout the network.
ROUTER OSPF mode
Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
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