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Configuring BIDIR-PIM
BIDIR-PIM configuration task list
Complete these tasks to configure BIDIR-PIM:
Task Remarks
Enabling PIM-SM Required
Enabling BIDIR-PIM Required
Configuring an RP
Configuring a static RP
Required
Use any a
pproach
Configuring a C-RP
Enabling auto-RP
Configuring C-RP timers globally Optional
Configuring a BSR
Configuring a C-BSR Required
Configuring a PIM domain border Optional
Configuring global C-BSR parameters Optional
Configuring C-BSR timers Optional
Disabling BSM semantic fragmentation Optional
Configuring an admin-
scope zone boundary
Enabling administrative scoping Optional
Configuring administrative scoping Optional
Configuring C-BSRs for each admin-scope zone
and the global-scope zone
Optional
Configuring PIM common features Optional
Configuration prerequisites
Before you configure BIDIR-PIM, complete the following tasks:
• Configure a unicast routing protocol so that all devices in the domain are interoperable at the
network layer.
• Determine the IP address of a static RP and the ACL that defines the range of the multicast groups to
be served by the static RP.
• Determine the C-RP priority and the ACL that defines the range of multicast groups to be served by
each C-RP.
• Determine the legal C-RP address range and the ACL that defines the range of multicast groups to
be served.
• Determine the C-RP-Adv interval.
• Determine the C-RP timeout.
• Determine the C-BSR priority.
• Determine the hash mask length.
• Determine the ACL defining the legal BSR address range.