Large-Scale IP Network Solutions (CCIE Professional Development)
by Khalid Raza - CCIE, Mark Turner
Summary
In this chapter, you have explored the various protocols used for implementing multicast in a large network. Specifically, the text has explored the use of IGMP and PIM for intradomain routing, and MBGP and MSDP for interdomain routing.
IGMP is used by hosts to communicate their interest in particular groups to their local router, which runs PIM. PIM itself operates in two modes: sparse and dense. In most circumstances, however, it is best to configure your network in sparse-dense mode and let PIM decide how to handle each group.
Dense mode PIM is more suited to groups with densely populated members; sparse mode is for sparsely distributed members. Dense mode uses a bandwidth consumptive flood-and-prune algorithm, whereas sparse mode ...
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