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Deterministic Upstream Neighbor Selection for PIM Joins
draft-ietf-pim-deterministic-ecmp-00

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (pim WG)
Expired & archived
Authors Bill Fenner , Santosh Kumar , Stig Venaas
Last updated 2025-11-09 (Latest revision 2025-05-08)
Replaces draft-fenner-pim-deterministic-ecmp
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Abstract

In densely interconnected networks, a PIM node may have many choices as to what upstream neighbor to send a JOIN message to, for a given source and group. This document describes a mechanism for multiple nodes (e.g., leaf nodes in a data center) to pick the same upstream node (e.g., spine node) to avoid redundant traffic flows.

Authors

Bill Fenner
Santosh Kumar
Stig Venaas

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