What is Rp in Cisco router?
Route Processor Overview
The route processor (RP) card is the system controller for the Cisco CRS 4-slot line card chassis. It performs route processing and distributes forwarding tables to the MSCs. Although the routing system contains two RP cards, only one RP is active at a time.
What is Rp in IGMP?
Message Dissemination. The single tree-based multicast system uses a Rendezvous Point (RP) based message dissemination scheme. That is, a sender of the multicast group sends a message to the root or the RP node of the tree, which then forwards the message along the tree to all receivers.
What does IP PIM RP address do?
An RP acts as the meeting place for sources and receivers of multicast data. In a PIM-SM network, sources must send their traffic to the RP. This traffic is then forwarded to receivers down a shared distribution tree.