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CONFIDENTIAL
26-Jan-04
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MSDP Operation
•MSDP peers (inter or intra domain)
•(TCP port 639 w/ higher IP addr LISTENS)
•“FLOOD & join”
•SA (source active) packets periodically sent to MSDP peers indicating:
•source address of active streams
•group address of active streams
•IP address of RP originating the SA
•only originate SA’s for your sources w/in your domain
•“flood & JOIN”
•interested parties can send PIM JOIN’s towards source (creates inter-domain source trees)
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