Simple join failure notification for PIM-SM multicast routing
draft-hoerdt-pim-group-unreachable-00
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Author | Mickael Hoerdt | ||
Last updated | 2006-06-12 | ||
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Consensus boilerplate | Unknown | ||
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IESG | IESG state | Expired | |
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Abstract
Currently, PIM-SM is the most widely deployed multicast routing protocol in the Internet. However in IPv6 this multicast protocol lacks a simple connectivity debugging tool, making it difficult to identify multicast routing problems. When a host wants to receive a multicast group or channel, if the corresponding PIM-Join message cannot be propagated in the network, nothing exists to inform the receiver or the network about this failure. We propose a simple error notification message based on ICMP/ICMP6 which is able to indicate where and why the error happened in the network without using a multicast traceroute mechanism.
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