Embedded rp – H3C Technologies H3C S7500E Series Switches User Manual

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13-9

Table 13-1 Values in the hashing algorithm

Value

Description

Value

Hash value

G

The digest from the exclusive-or (XOR) operation between the 32-bit segments of

the IPv6 multicast group address. For example, if the IPv6 multicast address is

FF0E:C20:1A3:63::101, G = 0xFF0E0C20 XOR 0x01A30063 XOR 0x00000000

XOR 0x00000101

M Hash

mask

length

C

i

The digest from the exclusive-or (XOR) operation between the 32-bit segments of

the C-RP IPv6 address. For example, if the IPv6 address of the C-RP is

3FFE:B00:C18:1::10, C

i

= 0x3FFE0B00 XOR 0x0C180001 XOR 0x00000000 XOR

0x00000010

&

Logical operator of “and”

XOR

Logical operator of “exclusive-or”

mod

Modulo operator, which gives the remainder of an integer division

Embedded RP

The Embedded RP mechanism allows a router to resolve the RP address from an IPv6

multicast address so that the IPv6 multicast group is mapped to an RP, which can take the

place of the statically configured RP or the RP dynamically calculated based on the BSR

mechanism. The DR does not need to know the RP address beforehand. The specific process

is as follows.

z

At the receiver side:

1) A receiver host initiates an MLD report to announce its joining an IPv6 multicast group.

2) Upon receiving the MLD report, the receiver-side DR resolves the RP address embedded in

the IPv6 multicast address, and sends a join message to the RP.

z

At the IPv6 multicast source side:

The IPv6 multicast source sends IPv6 multicast traffic to the IPv6 multicast group.

3) The source-side DR resolves the RP address embedded in the IPv6 multicast address, and

sends a register message to the RP.

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