With shared tree, multicast distribution roots at RP. RP Configuration You can configure – for different groups – as many rendezvous points as you like. But you must note that all routers in the multicast domain agree on the RP for the group. There are different ways that RPs are defined: Static RP: You configure […]
Subscribers use IGMP to join a multicast group. If the publisher also resides in the same network as the subscriber, it is sufficient. However, if the subscriber and the publisher are not in the same network, a multicast routing protocol must exist to route the multicast traffic down to the subscriber from the source. Cisco […]
A multicast distribution tree (MDT) is the paths through the network from source to receive used to distribute multicast data traffic. There are two types of trees: Shortest Path Tree (SPT): this tree is also known as source tree which is the quickest path from the source to receiver. But it may require more states […]
Data delivery models Let’s review what Multicast is by first looking into three other types of data delivery. Unicast: one-to-one transmission Broadcast: one-to-all transmission Anycast: one-to-nearest transmission Multicast is data transmission from one or a group of publishers to a group of subscribers. With that being said we will have different applications with IP Multicast […]