Reference document

Org
IETF
Pubnum
RFC 4601
Date
2006-08
Version
Title
Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised)

Applicability

This document specifies Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM). PIM-SM is a multicast routing protocol that can use the underlying unicast routing information base or a separate multicast- capable routing information base. It builds unidirectional shared trees rooted at a Rendezvous Point (RP) per group, and optionally creates shortest-path trees per source.

Responsible Party

Name
FMN CPWG

Status

URI
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4601.txt

History

Flag Date RFC Version
added 2013-09-04 8
changed 2017-01-14 9-17 10
changed 2022-12-20 14-62 15
UUID
e5627374-7af8-4dbb-b470-b01e0c48252b

Relationships

This standard is used by the following service profiles: