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Introduction to IP Multicast Routing
draft-ietf-mboned-intro-multicast-03

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (mboned WG)
Expired & archived
Authors Thomas A. Maufer , Chuck Semeria
Last updated 1997-10-28
RFC stream Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
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Abstract

The first part of this paper describes the benefits of multicasting, the MBone, Class D addressing, and the operation of the Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP). The second section explores a number of different techniques that may potentially be employed by multicast routing protocols: o Flooding o Spanning Trees o Reverse Path Broadcasting (RPB) o Truncated Reverse Path Broadcasting (TRPB) o Reverse Path Multicasting (RPM) o ''Shared-Tree'' Techniques The third part contains the main body of the paper. It describes how the previous techniques are implemented in multicast routing protocols available today (or under development). o Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP) o Multicast Extensions to OSPF (MOSPF) o Protocol-Independent Multicast - Dense Mode (PIM-DM) o Protocol-Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) o Core-Based Trees (CBT)

Authors

Thomas A. Maufer
Chuck Semeria

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