PIM NULL Register packing
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Network Working Group V. Kamath
Internet-Draft VMware
Intended status: Standards Track R. Chokkanathapuram Sundaram
Expires: April 22, 2019 Cisco Systems, Inc.
October 19, 2018
PIM NULL Register packing
draft-ietf-pim-null-register-packing-00
Abstract
In PIM-SM networks PIM registers are sent from the first hop router
to the RP (Rendezvous Point) to signal the presence of Multicast
source in the network.There are periodic PIM Null registers sent from
first hop router to the RP to keep the state alive at the RP as long
as the source is active. The PIM null register packet carry
information about a single Multicast source and group. This document
defines a standard to send multiple Multicast source and group
information in a single pim null register packet and the
interoperability between the PIM routers which do not understand the
packet format with multiple Multicast source and group details.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1. Conventions Used in This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. PIM Register Stop format with capability option . . . . . . . 3
3. New PIM Null register format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. New Packed PIM Register Stop format . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5. Protocol operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
7. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
8. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
8.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
8.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1. Introduction
PIM Null registers are sent by First hop routers periodically for
Multicast streams to keep the states active on the RP as long as the
Multicast source is alive. As the number of multicast sources
increase, the number of PIM null register packets that are sent
increases at a given time. This results in more PIM packet
processing at RP and FHR. The control plane policing(COPP), monitors
the packets that gets processed by the control plane. Due to the
high rate at which NULL registers are received at the RP, this can
lead to COPP drops of Multicast PIM null register packets. This
draft proposes a method to efficiently pack multiple PIM null
registers and register stop into a single message as these packets
anyway don't contain data. The draft also proposes interoperability
with the routers that do not understand the new packet format.
1.1. Conventions Used in This Document
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].
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