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Title : BIER Ping and Trace
Authors : Nagendra Kumar
Carlos Pignataro
Nobo Akiya
Lianshu Zheng
Mach Chen
Greg Mirsky
Filename : draft-kumarzheng-bier-ping-00.txt
Pages : 20
Date : 2015-03-06
Abstract:
Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) is an architecture that
provides optimal multicast forwarding through a "BIER domain" without
requiring intermediate routers to maintain any multicast related per-
flow state. BIER also does not require any explicit tree-building
protocol for its operation. A multicast data packet enters a BIER
domain at a "Bit-Forwarding Ingress Router" (BFIR), and leaves the
BIER domain at one or more "Bit-Forwarding Egress Routers" (BFERs).
The BFIR router adds a BIER header to the packet. The BIER header
contains a bit-string in which each bit represents exactly one BFER
to forward the packet to. The set of BFERs to which the multicast
packet needs to be forwarded is expressed by setting the bits that
correspond to those routers in the BIER header.
This document describes the mechanism and basic BIER OAM packet
format that can be used to perform failure detection and isolation on
BIER data plane.
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https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kumarzheng-bier-ping/
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