HSRP-Aware PIM

[lagapidis (Lazarus Agapidis)]

Hello Sten

Thanks for sharing the content that helped explain what is going on. You can also find some information and some useful links at the following post:

Multicast PIM Assert Explained

Hello Zouhair In a network topology where you have employed an FHRP as well as multicast, you will find that multicast traffic will not necessarily conform to the FHRP elected active router. Multicast works independently from the FHRP, so the decision to align the forwarder with the active router should be applied to improve load balancing based upon the expected unicast and multicast traffic patterns. FHRPs aside, there is no particular advantage of having the same device become the forwarde…

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Laz