Setup Guide
To enable BSR election for IPv4 or IPv6, perform the following steps:
1  Enter the following IPv4 or IPv6 command to make a PIM router a BSR candidate:
CONFIGURATION
ip pim bsr-candidate
ipv6 pim bsr-candidate
2  Enter the following IPv4 or IPv6 command to make a PIM router a RP candidate:
CONFIGURATION
ip pim rp-candidate
ipv6 pim rp-candidate
3  Display IPv4 or IPv6 Bootstrap Router information.
EXEC Privilege
show ip pim bsr-router
Example:
DellEMC# show ip pim bsr-router
PIMv2 Bootstrap information
This system is the Bootstrap Router (v2)
 BSR address: 7.7.7.7 (?)
 BSR Priority: 0, Hash mask length: 30
 Next bootstrap message in 00:00:08
This system is a candidate BSR
 Candidate BSR address: 7.7.7.7, priority: 0, hash mask length: 30
DellEMC#
show ipv6 pim bsr-router
Example:
DellEMC#show ipv6 pim bsr-router 
PIMv2 Bootstrap information
 BSR address: 200::1 (?)
 BSR Priority: 0, Hash mask length: 126
 Expires: 00:01:43
This system is a candidate BSR
 Candidate BSR address: 100::1, priority: 0, hash mask length: 126
Next Cand_RP_advertisement in 00:00:25
 RP: 100::1(Lo 0)
DellEMC#
PIM Sparse-Mode (PIM-SM)
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