Displaying BSR information

TABLE 28 Output from the show ipv6 pim group command

Field

Description

 

 

Total number of Groups

Lists the total number of IPv6 multicast groups the device is forwarding.

 

 

Group

The multicast group address.

 

 

Group member at

Interface name and number.

 

 

Displaying BSR information

To display information on a device that has been elected as the BSR, enter the show ipv6 pim bsr command at the CLI level.

Brocade# show ipv6 pim bsr

PIMv2 Bootstrap information for Vrf Instance : default-vrf

------------------------------------------------------------------

This system is the Elected BSR

BSR address: 2006:1001::1. Hash Mask Length 64. Priority 32. Next bootstrap message in 00:01:00

Configuration:

Candidate loopback 1 (Address 2006:1001::1). Hash Mask Length 64. Priority 32. Next Candidate-RP-advertisment in 00:00:50

RP: 2006:1001::1 group prefixes: ff00:: / 8

Candidate-RP-advertisement period: 60

Candidate-RP-advertisement period: 60

Candidate-RP-advertisement period: 60

The following example shows information displayed on a device that is not the BSR. Notice that some fields shown in the previous example do not appear in the following example.

Brocade# show ipv6 pim bsr

PIMv2 Bootstrap information for Vrf Instance : default-vrf

------------------------------------------------------------

BSR address: 2006:1001::1. Hash Mask Length 64. Priority 32. This system is not a Candidate-RP.

This system is not a Candidate-RP.

Syntax: show ipv6 pim [ vrf vrf-name] bsr

The vrf parameter allows you to display IPv6 PIM BSR information for the VRF instance identified by the vrf-namevariable.

The following table displays the output from the show ipv6 pim bsr command.

TABLE 29 Output from the show ipv6 pim bsr command

Field

Description

 

 

BSR address

The IPv6 address of the interface configured as the IPv6 PIM Sparse Bootstrap

 

Router (BSR).

 

 

BSR priority

The priority assigned to the interface for use during the BSR election process. During

 

BSR election, the priorities of the candidate BSRs are compared and the interface

 

with the highest BSR priority becomes the BSR.

 

 

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