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Chapter 25 Configuring IPv4 Multicast VPN Support
Understanding How MVPN Works
Figure 25-1 Default Multicast Distribution Tree Overview
If an employee in New York joins the multicast session, the PE router associated for the New York site
sends a join request that flows across the default MDT for the multicast domain. The PE router
associated with the multicast session source (PE1) receives the request.
Figure 25-2
shows how the PE
router forwards the request to the CE router associated with the multicast source (CE1a).
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