
How DVMRP Supports IP Multicast
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How DVMRP
Supports
IP Multicast
DVMRP is a distance-vector routing protocol that allows routers to
establish shortest-path, source-rooted, IP multicast delivery trees. While it
is similar to the Routing Information Protocol (RIP), one important
difference is that DVMRP focuses on the
previous hop
back to a multicast
source, not the next hop to a destination. Multicast routers are concerned
with moving packets
away from the source
on a loopless path so that
multicast storms do not occur.
Spanning Tree
Delivery
DVMRP version 3.x uses the Reverse Path Multicast (RPM) algorithm to
construct a delivery tree that begins at the source and spans out to reach
group members on a loopless path through the network. Hence, DVMRP
seeks to form a
source-rooted spanning tree
for each source-group pair.
The shape of each tree changes dynamically, depending on the location
of hosts that join and leave the group. As shown in Figure 68, any routing
interface that contains group members is called a
leaf interface
.
Figure 68
Sample IP Multicast Spanning Tree
Leaf
Leaf
Branch
Leaf
Branch
Source
= Multicast router
= Active multicast group member
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