PIM convergence on MAC movement

PIM convergence occurs when the PIM module is notified of a topology change.

The notification is triggered upon a change in port status, Reverse Path Forwarding (RPF) failure in the hardware, or by the unicast routing module if there is a change in the Layer 3 topology. If the topology change occurs without setting off any of the two events or if the Layer 3 topology change is not notified by the unicast routing module, PIM convergence does not take place.

If there is a change in the source traffic at the Layer 2 interface level, the RPF check fails because only loose RPF check is supported (loose RPF check detects the change in the source traffic only at the Layer 3 interface level). A notification for a change in the source traffic at the Layer 2 interface level can be triggered by establishing a signaling process for MAC address movement. The MAC address movement notification triggers RPF check on MAC movement for directly connected sources. The MAC address movement notification can be triggered by configuring the ip multicast-routing rpf-check mac-movement command. The MAC address movement notification triggers a notification to the PIM module which results in convergence. PIM convergence is supported in both PIM Sparse and PIM Dense modes.

PIM convergence on MAC movement is supported on the Brocade ICX 7xxx switches.