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Bi-Directional Shared Trees in PIM-SM
draft-farinacci-bidir-pim-01

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
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Authors Dr. Deborah Estrin , Dino Farinacci
Last updated 1999-06-18
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Abstract

This proposal extends the PIM-SM [1] mechanism for multicast datagram forwarding. PIM-SM constructs and maintains uni-directional shared trees and uni-directional source trees. We describe how we can extend the elements of operation of sparse-mode PIM to support bi- directional shared trees.

Authors

Dr. Deborah Estrin
Dino Farinacci

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