Trying to setup BSR for multicast

OfWolfAndMan · October 2014

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 · October 2014

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 · October 2014

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 · October 2014

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.

Trying to setup BSR for multicast

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