Trying to setup BSR for multicast

OfWolfAndMan

The problem I am having is the IOSs I have in GNS3 do not support PIMv2 (Which is needed to setup BSR). Anyone know a good image? Also, I want to make sure the image supports IGMPv3 as well (For configuring SSM).

reaper81

I'm suprised that you even found an image that doesn't have it. It's been around for ages since 12.2. Any 12.4+ image would be good enough. It depends on if you want to practice on 12.4 or 15.x.

lrb

Daniel is right, BSR has been around for a long time now so any recent image should be fine.

I just ran up a small GNS3 setup to see if it worked with my 2691 image.

R2#show ver | inc IOS
Cisco IOS Software, 2600 Software (C2691-ADVIPSERVICESK9-M), Version 12.4(15)T6, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2)

R2(config)#ip multicast-routing

R2(config)#int range l0 , fa0/0
R2(config-if-range)#ip pim sparse-mode

R2(config)#ip pim bsr-candidate l0
R2(config)#ip pim rp-candidate l0

R2#show ip pim bsr-router
PIMv2 Bootstrap information
This system is the Bootstrap Router (BSR)
  BSR address: 2.2.2.2 (?)
  Uptime:      00:00:10, BSR Priority: 0, Hash mask length: 0
  Next bootstrap message in 00:00:50
  Candidate RP: 2.2.2.2(Loopback0)
    Holdtime 150 seconds
    Advertisement interval 60 seconds
    Next advertisement in 00:00:53

Seems to work okay with that IOS release.

OfWolfAndMan

Guess I just got unlucky initially. I was using a 3640 12.4 jk9s image. The error message I got when trying to configure #ip pim bsr-candidate lo0 command was Warning: PIMv2 not configured on Loopback0, BSR message not originated. I soon came to realize that I did enable sparse mode on every outgoing interface with the exception of the loopback. Small mistake.