Supported IP Multicast Standards

The JUNOS software substantially supports the following IP multicast standards:

• RFC 1112, Host Extensions for IP Multicasting (defines IGMP Version 1)
• RFC 2236, Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 2
• RFC 2327, SDP: Session Description Protocol
• RFC 2362, Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification
• RFC 2365, Administratively Scoped IP Multicast
• RFC 2547, BGP/MPLS VPNs
• RFC 2710, Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6
• RFC 2974, Session Announcement Protocol
• RFC 2858, Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4
• RFC 3031, Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture
• RFC 3208, PGM Reliable Transport Protocol Specification
• RFC 3376, Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 3 (SSM include mode only)
• RFC 3446, Anycast Rendevous [sic] Point (RP) Mechanism using Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) and Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
• RFC 3569, An Overview of Source-Specific Multicast (SSM)
• RFC 3590, Source Address Selection for the Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Protocol (SSM include mode only)
• RFC 3618, Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
• RFC 3973, Protocol Independent Multicast – Dense Mode (PIM-DM): Protocol Specification (Revised)
• RFC 4601, Protocol Independent Multicast – Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised)
• Internet draft draft-holbrook-idmr-igmpv3-ssm-07.txt, Using IGMPv3 and MLDv2 for Source-Specific Multicast (expires December 2004)
• Internet draft draft-ietf-idmr-dvmrp-v3-11.txt, Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol
• Internet draft draft-ietf-mboned-ssm232-08.txt, Source-Specific Protocol Independent Multicast in 232/8
• Internet draft draft-ietf-mmusic-sap-00.txt, SAP: Session Announcement Protocol
• Internet draft draft-ietf-pim-sm-bsr-05.txt, Bootstrap Router (BSR) Mechanism for PIM (except for the scoping mechanism)
• Internet draft draft-ietf-ssm-arch-06.txt, Source-Specific Multicast for IP
• Internet draft draft-raggarwa-l3vpn-2547-mvpn-00.txt, Base Specification for Multicast in BGP/MPLS VPNs (expires December 2004)
• Internet draft draft-rosen-vpn-mcast-06.txt, Multicast in MPLS/BGP VPNs (expires April 2004)
• Internet draft draft-rosen-vpn-mcast-07.txt, Multicast in MPLS/BGP VPNs (Only section 7, “Data MDT: Optimizing flooding,” is supported.)

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