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RFC 7910
Interoperability between the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol and PIM,June 2016
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- Status:
- INFORMATIONAL
- Author:
- W. Zhou
- Stream:
- INDEPENDENT
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7910
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Abstract
This document introduces VRRP-aware PIM, a redundancy mechanism forthe Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) to interoperate with theVirtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP). It allows PIM to trackVRRP state and to preserve multicast traffic upon failover in aredundant network with virtual routing groups enabled. The mechanismdescribed in this document is based on Cisco IOS softwareimplementation.
For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.
For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.