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Title : PIM Protocol States Diagnostics
Author(s) : B. Joshi, A. Patel, J. Kulkarni
Filename : draft-joshi-pim-protocol-state-diag-00.txt
Pages : 23
Date : 2008-2-14
Multicast networks are being deployed in large numbers. It becomes
very important that, proper mechanisms are in place for
troubleshooting error conditions and diagnosing other failure
situations. Since multicasting has little support from IP in this
matter (since ICMP does not support multicasting and broadcasting) it behooves that, multicast routing protocols, embed these features in
themselves.
There are various debugging tools available to debug Multicast
connectivity [ssmping][3] and to trace multicast routes [mtrace][4]
but there is none to diagnose, troubleshoot routing protocol states.
Since PIM protocol family is probably the most widely used multicast
routing protocol, this draft suggests an extension to PIM protocol to
diagnose and troubleshoot various PIM states in PIM routers.
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