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This draft is a work item of the Inter-Domain Multicast Routing Working Group of the IETF.
Title : Multicast Router Discovery
Author(s) : S. Biswas, B. Cain, B. Haberman
Filename : draft-ietf-idmr-igmp-mrdisc-10.txt
Pages : 17
Date : 2003-1-8
The concept of IGMP snooping requires the ability to identify the
location of multicast routers. Since IGMP (and MLD) snooping is not
standardized, there are many mechanisms in use to identify the
multicast routers. However, this scenario can lead to
interoperability issues between multicast routers and layer-2
switches from different vendors.
This document introduces a general mechanism that allows for the
discovery of multicast routers. By introducing these new messages,
snooping devices have a uniform means of identifying multicast
routers without dependency on particular routing protocols. These
messages may also be used to convey configuration parameters to all
systems on a network. In addition, other devices that may need to
discover multicast routers can utilize these messages.
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