show ip pim rp-set

Displays rendezvous-point (RP)-set list for the device elected as the bootstrap router (BSR).
Syntax
show ip pim rp-set
Modes

User EXEC mode

The show ip pim rp-set command displays the following information:

Output Field

Description

Number of group prefixes

The number of PIM Sparse group prefixes for which the RP is responsible.

Group prefix

Indicates the multicast groups for which the RP listed by the previous field is a candidate RP.

RPs expected or received

Indicates how many RPs were expected and received in the latest bootstrap message.

RP num

Indicates the RP number. If there are multiple RPs in the PIM Sparse domain, a line of information for each RP is listed, in ascending numerical order.

priority

The RP priority of the candidate RP. During the election process, the candidate RP with the highest priority is elected as the RP.

age

The age (in seconds) of this RP-set.

holdtime

Indicates the time in seconds for which this rp-set information is valid.

If this rp-set information is not received from BSR within the holdtime period, the rp-set information is aged out and deleted.

Examples

The following example shows the RP set list for the device elected as BSR. 

device> show ip pim rp-set             
Static RP
---------
Static RP count: 2
1.51.51.4
1.51.51.5
Number of group prefixes Learnt from BSR: 1
Group prefix = 224.0.0.0/4      # RPs: 2
      RP 1: 1.51.51.1    priority=0    age=60    holdtime=150
      RP 2: 1.51.51.3    priority=0    age=30    holdtime=150

The following example shows the RP set list for devices that are not elected as BSR. 

device> show ip pim rp-set
Static RP
---------
Static RP count: 2
1.51.51.4
1.51.51.5
Number of group prefixes Learnt from BSR: 1
Group prefix = 224.0.0.0/4      # RPs expected: 2
      # RPs received: 2
      RP 1: 1.51.51.1    priority=0    age=60    holdtime=150
      RP 2: 1.51.51.3    priority=0    age=30    holdtime=150
Parent topic: Show Commands