PIM DR Improvement
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PIM WG                                                      Zheng. Zhang
Internet-Draft                                               Fangwei. Hu
Intended status: Standards Track                            Benchong. Xu
Expires: December 30, 2018                               ZTE Corporation
                                                       Mankamana. Mishra
                                                           Cisco Systems
                                                           June 28, 2018

                           PIM DR Improvement
                  draft-ietf-pim-dr-improvement-05.txt

Abstract

   PIM is widely deployed multicast protocol.  PIM protocol is defined
   in [RFC7761].  As deployment for PIM protocol is growing day by day,
   user expects lower traffic loss and faster convergence in case of any
   network failure.  This document provides extension to the existing
   protocol which would improve stability of PIM protocol with respect
   to traffic loss and convergence time when the PIM DR is down.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  PIM hello message format  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     3.1.  DR Address Option format  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     3.2.  BDR Address Option format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   4.  The Protocol Treatment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     4.1.  Deployment Choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     4.2.  Election Algorithm  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     4.3.  Sending Hello Messages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     4.4.  Receiving Hello Messages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     4.5.  The treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     4.6.  Sender side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   5.  Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   6.  Deployment suggestion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   7.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   8.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   9.  Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   10. Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10

1.  Introduction

   Multicast technology is used widely.  Many modern technologies, such
   as IPTV, Net-Meeting, use PIM-SM to facilitate multicast service.
   There are many events that will influence the quality of multicast
   services.  Like the change of unicast routes, the change of the PIM-
   SM DR may cause the loss of multicast packets too.

   After a DR on a shared-media LAN went down, other routers will elect
   a new DR after the expiration of Hello-Holdtime.  The default value
   of Hello-Holdtime is 105 seconds.  Although the minimum Hello
   interval can be adjust to 1 second and the Hello-Holdtime is 3.5
   times Hello interval.  Thus, the detection of DR Down event cannot be
   guaranteed in less than 3.5 seconds.  And it is still too long for
   modern multicast services.  Still, may multicast packets will be
   lost.  The quality of IPTV and Net-Meeting will be influenced.

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