RFC 4601

"Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised)", August 2006

Canonical URL:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4601.txt
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Status:

PROPOSED STANDARD

Obsoletes:

RFC 2362

Updated by:

RFC 5059, RFC 5796, RFC 6226

Authors:

B. Fenner
M. Handley
H. Holbrook
I. Kouvelas

Stream:

IETF

Source:

pim (rtg)

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Abstract

This document specifies Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM). PIM-SM is a multicast routing protocol that can use the underlying unicast routing information base or a separate multicast-capable routing information base. It builds unidirectional shared trees rooted at a Rendezvous Point (RP) per group, and optionally creates shortest-path trees per source. This document obsoletes RFC 2362, an Experimental version of PIM-SM. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.