PIM Triggered Joins

Table Of Contents

PIM Triggered Joins

Finding Feature Information

Contents

Restrictions for PIM Triggered Joins

Information About PIM Triggered Joins

Functional Overview of PIM Triggered Joins

Additional References

Related Documents

Standards

MIBs

RFCs

Technical Assistance

Feature Information for PIM Triggered Joins

PIM Triggered Joins

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First Published: August 21, 2007

Last Updated: November 20, 2009

The PIM Triggered Joins feature is a high availability (HA) multicast enhancement that improves the reconvergence of multicast routes (mroutes) after an RP switchover.

Finding Feature Information

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Contents

•Restrictions for PIM Triggered Joins

•Information About PIM Triggered Joins

•Additional References

•Feature Information for PIM Triggered Joins

Restrictions for PIM Triggered Joins

All PIM neighbors must be compliant with RFC 4601 and be able to process GenID differences in PIM hello messages.

Information About PIM Triggered Joins

To understand the PIM Triggered Joins feature, you should be familiar with the following concept:

•Functional Overview of PIM Triggered Joins

Functional Overview of PIM Triggered Joins

The PIM Triggered Joins feature is an HA multicast enhancement that improves the reconvergence of mroutes after an RP switchover. In the event of an RP switchover, this feature utilizes the Protocol Indepedent Multicast sparse mode (PIM-SM) GenID value as a mechanism to trigger adjacent PIM neighbors on an interface to send PIM join messages for all (*, G) and (S, G) mroutes that use that interface as an RPF interface, immediately reestablishing those states on the newly active RP. A GenID is a randomly generated 32-bit value regenerated each time PIM forwarding is started or restarted on an interface.

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Note In order to process the GenID value in PIM hello messages, PIM neighbors must be running Cisco IOS software with an implementation of PIM that is compliant with RFC 4601. For more information about RFC 4601, see the "Additional References" section.

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After an RP switchover, all instances of PIM running on the newly active RP will modify the value of the GenID that is included in PIM hello messages sent to adjacent PIM neighbors. When an adjacent PIM neighbor receives a PIM hello message on an interface with a new GenID, the PIM neighbor will process the modified GenID as an indication that the PIM neighbor has gone down. A modified GenID, thus, is a mechanism to alert all adjacent PIM neighbors that PIM forwarding on that interface has been lost, which then triggers adjacent PIM neighbors to send PIM joins for all (*, G) and (S, G) mroute states that use that interface as an RPF interface.

Figure 1 illustrates the operations that occur in association with the PIM Triggered Joins feature during an RP switchover.

Figure 1 Operation of PIM Triggered Joins During a Switchover

The mechanics of the PIM Triggered Joins feature are as follows:

•In steady state, PIM neighbors exchange periodic PIM hello messages.

•An active RP receives PIM joins to periodically refresh mroute states.

•When an active RP fails, the standby RP takes over to become the new active RP.

•The new active RP then modifies the GenID value and sends the new GenID in PIM hello messages to adjacent PIM neighbors.

•Adjacent PIM neighbors that receive PIM hello messages on an interface with a new GenID then send PIM triggered joins for all (*, G) and (S, G) mroutes that use that interfaces as an RPF interface.

•Those mroute states are then immediately reestablished on the newly active RP.

Prior to the introduction of the PIM Triggered Joins feature, in the event of an RP switchover, all hardware entries would have been suspended until the control plane was reestablished. States for mroutes on the new active RP, thus, would not have been rebuilt until the periodic joins sent by adjacent PIM neighbors were received by PIM neighbors on the new active RP. The PIM Triggered Joins feature, thus, improves the recovergence time of mroutes after an RP switchover, enabling mroute states to be rebuilt promptly after an RP switchover.

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Note If a PIM neighbor is unable to process the GenID value, the PIM neighbor will ignore the GenID value and behave in the manner that it would prior to the introduction of the PIM Triggered Joins feature.

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Additional References

The following sections provide references related to the PIM Triggered Joins feature.

Related Documents

Related Topic	Document Title
Multicast configuration tasks on Catalyst 6500 series switches	"Configuring Multicast Services" module in the Catalyst 6500 Series Software Configuration Guide, 8.6
Multicast concepts and tasks	Cisco IOS IP Multicast Configuration Guide, Release 12.4T
IP multicast commands: complete command syntax, command mode, command history, defaults, usage guidelines, and examples	Cisco IOS IP Multicast Command Reference, Release 12.2SX

Standards

Standard	Title
No new or modified standards are supported by this feature, and support for existing standards has not been modified by this feature.	—

MIBs

MIB	MIBs Link
No new or modified MIBs are supported by this feature, and support for existing MIBs has not been modified by this feature.	To locate and download MIBs for selected platforms, Cisco IOS releases, and feature sets, use Cisco MIB Locator found at the following URL: http://www.cisco.com/go/mibs

RFCs

RFC	Title
RFC 4601	Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised)

Technical Assistance

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Feature Information for PIM Triggered Joins

Table 1 lists the release history for this feature.

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Note Table 1 lists only the Cisco IOS software release that introduced support for a given feature in a given Cisco IOS software release train. Unless noted otherwise, subsequent releases of that Cisco IOS software release train also support that feature.

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Table 1 Feature Information for PIM Triggered Joins 

Feature Name	Releases	Feature Information
PIM Triggered Joins	12.2(33)SXH 15.0(1)M 12.2(33)SRE	The PIM Triggered Joins feature is an HA multicast enhancement that improves the reconvergence of mroutes after an RP switchover. In the event of an RP switchover, this feature utilizes the PIM-SM GenID value as a mechanism to trigger adjacent PIM neighbors on an interface to send PIM join messages for all (*, G) and (S, G) mroutes that use that interface as an RPF interface, immediately reestablishing those states on the newly active RP.

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