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CONFIDENTIAL
26-Jan-04
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The Soup
•IGMP - Internet Group Management Protocol is used by hosts and routers to tell each other about group membership.
•PIM-SM - Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode is used to propagate forwarding state between routers.
•SSM - Source Specific Multicast utilizes a subset of PIM’s functionality to guaranty source-only trees in the 232/8 range.
•MBGP - Multiprotocol Border Gateway Protocol is used to exchange routing information for interdomain RPF checking.
•MSDP - Multicast Source Discovery Protocol is used to exchange ASM active source information between RPs.
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