RFC 1585: MOSPF: Analysis and Experience

This RFC immediately followed the 100+ page RFC 1584 that fully detailed all relevant information regarding the ability of allowing OSPF to perform multicasting. This RFC is rather short and was written to fulfill the requirements imposed by the IETF Internet Routing Protocol Standardization Criteria as detailed in RFC 1264.

This RFC provides excellent justification on why it was written by providing a brief discussion surrounding the basic operation of MOSPF and how it uses the Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) to monitor multicast group membership. This information is retrieved from the LAN and then forwarded out by the router by the OSPF flooding protocol through the use of the new group-membership-LSA. ...

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