Administrator Guide

Layer 3 Routing Commands 1607
User Guidelines
This command only has an effect if sparse mode is enabled.
Example
console(if-vlan10)#ip pim join-prune-interval 30
ip pim rp-address
Use the ip pim rp-address command in Global Configuration mode to define
the address of a PIM Rendezvous point (RP) for a specific multicast group
range. Use the no form of this command to remove a configured RP. This
command replaces the ip pimsm rp-address command.
Syntax
ip pim rp-address {rp-address group-address group-mask [override]}
no ip pim rp-address {rp-address group-address group-mask}
• rp-address — The valid IPv4 address for the rendezvous point.
• group-address — A valid multicast group address to be sourced from the
rendezvous point.
• group-mask — A mask indicating the range of multicast groups sourced from the
RP.
• override — A flag indicating that the static entry should override dynamically
learned entries for the configured multicast group.
Default Configuration
None —no static multicast groups are configured for an RP.
Command Mode
Global Configuration mode
User Guidelines
A maximum of 32 multicast group ranges may be defined for each rendezvous
point. The configured ranges may not overlap.