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IMPORTANT:

MLD must be enabled on the device that acts as the receiver-side DR. Otherwise, the receiver hosts
attached to the DR cannot join any IPv6 multicast groups. For more information about MLD, see
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Configuring MLD

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Figure 46 DR election

As shown in

Figure 25

, the DR election process is as follows:

1.

The routers on the shared-media LAN send hello messages to one another. The hello messages

contain the priority for DR election. The router with the highest DR priority is elected as the DR.

2.

In the case of a tie in the priority, or if any router in the network does not support carrying the
DR-election priority in hello messages, the router with the highest IPv6 link-local address wins the

DR election.

If the DR fails, its IPv6 PIM neighbor lifetime expires, and the other routers initiate a new DR election.

RP discovery

An RP is the core of an IPv6 PIM-SM domain. For a small-sized, simple network, one RP is enough for
multicast forwarding throughout the network. In this case, you can specify a static RP on each router in

the IPv6 PIM-SM domain. However, in an IPv6 PIM-SM network that covers a wide area, a huge amount

of IPv6 multicast data is forwarded by the RP. To lessen the RP burden and optimize the topological

structure of the RPT, you can configure multiple candidate-RPs (C-RPs) in an IPv6 PIM-SM domain and use
the bootstrap mechanism to dynamically elect RPs. An elected RP provides services for a different IPv6

multicast group. For this purpose, you must configure a bootstrap router (BSR). A BSR serves as the

administrative core of an IPv6 PIM-SM domain. An IPv6 PIM-SM domain has only one BSR, but can have

multiple candidate-BSRs (C-BSRs) so that, if the BSR fails, a new BSR can be automatically elected from

the C-BSRs and avoid service interruption.

NOTE:

An RP can provide services for multiple IPv6 multicast groups, but an IPv6 multicast group only uses one
RP.

A device can act as a C-RP and a C-BSR at the same time.