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Partitioning Tag Space among Multicast Routers on a Common Subnet
draft-farinacci-multicast-tag-part-00

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
Author Dino Farinacci
Last updated 1996-12-16
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Abstract

There are 3 major functions that must be performed to achieve multicast tagswitching. 1) Tag Allocation, which requires each multicast Tag Switching Router (TSR) to have a tag value range that it uses. 2) Tag Binding, using the tags allocated, a TSR must assign them to multicast routes. 3) Tag Binding Distribution, after binding tag values to routes, they must be distributed to other TSRs so they all forward on a common and consistent distribution tree. In this document we present how tags are allocated uniquely across multicast capable TSRs on a LAN and point-to-point IP subnets.

Authors

Dino Farinacci

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