Unnecessary Multicast Flooding Problem Statement
draft-dizhou-pim-umf-problem-statement-01
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| Authors | Di Zhou , DENG Hui , Yang Shi , Hui Liu , Indranil Bhattacharya | ||
| Last updated | 2010-10-19 | ||
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Abstract
This document describes the unnecessary multicast stream flooding problem in the link layer switches between multicast source and PIM First Hop Router (FHR). The IGMP-Snooping Switch will forward multicast streams to router ports, and the PIM FHR must receive all multicast streams even if there is no request from receiver. This often leads to waste of switchs' cache and link bandwidth when the multicast streams are not actually required. This document details the problem and defines design goals for a generic mechanism to restrain the unnecessary multicast stream flooding.
Authors
Di Zhou
DENG Hui
Yang Shi
Hui Liu
Indranil Bhattacharya
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