Bidirectional rpt building – H3C Technologies H3C S12500 Series Switches User Manual
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In the case of a tie in the metric, the router with the highest IP address wins.
Bidirectional RPT building
A bidirectional RPT comprises a receiver-side RPT and a source-side RPT. The receiver-side RPT is rooted
at the RP and takes the routers directly connected to the receivers as leaves. The source-side RPT is also
rooted at the RP but takes the routers directly connected to the sources as leaves. The processes for
building these two parts are different.
Figure 44 RPT building at the receiver side
As shown in
, the process for building a receiver-side RPT is similar to that for building an RPT
in PIM-SM:
1.
When a receiver joins multicast group G, it uses an IGMP message to inform the directly
connected router.
2.
After getting the receiver information, the router sends a join message, which is forwarded hop by
hop to the RP of the multicast group.
3.
The routers along the path from the receiver's directly connected router to the RP form an RPT
branch, and each router on this branch adds a (*, G) entry to its forwarding table. The asterisk (*)
means any multicast source.
When a receiver is no longer interested in the multicast data addressed to multicast group G, the directly
connected router sends a prune message, which goes hop by hop along the reverse direction of the RPT
to the RP. After receiving the prune message, each upstream node deletes the interface connected to the
downstream node from the outgoing interface list and checks whether it has receivers in that multicast
group. If not, the router continues to forward the prune message to its upstream router.