Chapter 17. IP Multicast Routing

Blueprint topics covered in this chapter:

This chapter covers the following subtopics from the Cisco CCIE Routing and Switching written exam blueprint. Refer to the full blueprint in Table I-1 in the Introduction for more details on the topics covered in each chapter and their context within the blueprint.

  • IGMPv2

  • Group Addresses

  • Shared Trees

  • Source Trees

  • Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Mechanics

  • PIM Sparse Mode

  • Auto-RP

  • Anycast RP

In Chapter 16, “Introduction to IP Multicasting,” you learned how a multicast router communicates with hosts and then decides whether to forward or stop the multicast traffic on a subnet. But how does a multicast router receive the group traffic? How is the multicast traffic forwarded from ...

Get CCIE Routing and Switching Exam Certification Guide, Third Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.