RFC 4601
Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised), August 2006
- File formats:
- Status:
- PROPOSED STANDARD
- Obsoletes:
- RFC 2362
- Obsoleted by:
- RFC 7761
- 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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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC4601
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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 Status, see RFC 2026.
For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.