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RFC 8775: PIM Designated Router Load Balancing

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On a multi-access network, one of the PIM-SM (PIM Sparse Mode) routers is elected as a Designated Router. One of the responsibilities of the Designated Router is to track local multicast listeners and forward data to these listeners if the group is operating in PIM-SM. This document specifies a modification to the PIM-SM protocol that allows more than one of the PIM-SM routers to take on this responsibility so that the forwarding load can be distributed among multiple routers.

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Document ID
RFC8775
Published
April 2020
Authors
Y. Cai; H. Ou; S. Vallepalli; M. Mishra; S. Venaas; A. Green
Status
PROPOSED STANDARD
Stream
IETF
Area
rtg
Pages
18
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