Chapter 13. Other Related Topics
This chapter provides a brief overview of various protocols that are not core to current deployments of IMR but may be of interest in future deployments or as potential Trivial Pursuit questions. We provide a brief overview of where the protocol fits in the grand scheme, how it operates, and where to find the specs.
Border Gateway Multicast Protocol (BGMP)
BGMP is the proverbial promised land for IMR. It is specified in an Internet-Draft titled “Border Gateway Multicast Protocol (BGMP): Protocol Specification” (draft-ietf-bgmp-spec.txt). BGMP requires that each multicast group be associated with a single root domain. BGMP-speaking routers require a mechanism that maps a group address to a next hop toward that group's ...
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