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PIM flooding mechanism and source discovery
draft-ietf-pim-source-discovery-bsr-04

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Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (pim WG)
Authors IJsbrand Wijnands , Stig Venaas , Michael Brig , Anders Jonasson
Last updated 2016-09-18 (Latest revision 2016-03-17)
Replaces draft-wijnands-pim-source-discovery-bsr
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https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-pim-source-discovery-bsr-04.txt

Abstract

PIM Sparse-Mode uses a Rendezvous Point and shared trees to forward multicast packets from new sources. Once last hop routers receive packets from a new source, they may join the Shortest Path Tree for the source for optimal forwarding. This draft defines a new protcol that provides a way to support PIM Sparse Mode (SM) without the need for PIM registers, RPs or shared trees. Multicast source information is flooded throughout the multicast domain using a new generic PIM flooding mechanism. This allows last hop routers to learn about new sources without receiving initial data packets.

Authors

IJsbrand Wijnands
Stig Venaas
Michael Brig
Anders Jonasson

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