Rendezvous Point Router Considerations

You can place an RP on a switch when VLANs extend over several switches. However, when you use PIM-SM, ensure that you do not span VLANs on more than two switches.

Use static group-range-to-RP mappings in an SMLT topology as opposed to RP set learning using the Bootstrap Router (BSR) mechanism. Static RP allows for faster convergence in box failure, reset and HA failover scenarios, whereas there are inherent delays in the BSR mechanism as follows: