Subject: intro to multicast routing

From: Mike Macedonia <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 09:17:10 -0500 (EST)

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       Title     : Introduction to IP Multicast Routing                    
       Author(s) : C. Semeria, T. Maufer
       Filename  : draft-rfced-info-semeria-00.txt
       Pages     : 55
       Date      : 03/26/1996

The first part of this paper describes the benefits of multicasting, 
the MBONE, Class D addressing, and the operation of the Internet Group 
Management Protocol (IGMP).  The second section explores a number of 
different algorithms that may potentially be employed by multicast 
routing protocols:  
                                                               
 - Flooding 
 - Spanning Trees 
 - Reverse Path Broadcasting (RPB) 
 - Truncated Reverse Path Broadcasting (TRPB) 
 - Reverse Path Multicasting (RPM) 
 - Core Based Trees  
                                                              
The third part contains the main body of the paper.  It describes how the 
previous algorithms are implemented in multicast routing protocols 
available today.           
                                                
 - Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP)  
 - Multicast OSPF (MOSPF)  
 - Protocol-Independent Multicast (PIM)                            

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