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PIM Protocol States Diagnostics
draft-joshi-pim-protocol-state-diag-00

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
Authors Bharat Joshi , Archana Patel , Janardhan Kulkarni
Last updated 2008-02-14
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Abstract

Multicast networks are being deployed in large numbers. It becomes very important that, proper mechanisms are in place for troubleshooting error conditions and diagnosing other failure situations. Since multicasting has little support from IP in this matter (since ICMP does not support multicasting and broadcasting) it behooves that, multicast routing protocols, embed these features in themselves. There are various debugging tools available to debug Multicast connectivity [ssmping][3] and to trace multicast routes [mtrace][4] but there is none to diagnose, troubleshoot routing protocol states. Since PIM protocol family is probably the most widely used multicast routing protocol, this draft suggests an extension to PIM protocol to diagnose and troubleshoot various PIM states in PIM routers.

Authors

Bharat Joshi
Archana Patel
Janardhan Kulkarni

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