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Draft-Rosen Multicast VPN Autodiscovery

A draft-rosen MVPN with service provider tunnels operating in SSM mode uses BGP signaling for autodiscovery of the PE routers.

Each PE sends an MDT subsequent address family identifier (MDT-SAFI) BGP network layer reachability information (NLRI) advertisement. The advertisement contains the following:

Each remote PE router imports the MDT-SAFI advertisements from each of the other PE routers if the route target matches. Each PE router then joins the (S,G) tree rooted at each of the other PE routers.

After a PE router discovers the other PE routers, the source and group are bound to the VRF through the multicast tunnel de-encapsulation interface.

A draft-rosen MVPN with service provider tunnels operating in any-source multicast sparse-mode uses a shared tree and rendezvous point (RP) for autodiscovery of the PE routers. The PE that is the source of the multicast group encapsulates multicast data packets into a PIM register message and sends them by means of unicast to the RP router. The RP then builds a shortest-path tree (SPT) toward the source PE. The remote PE that acts as a receiver for the MDT multicast group sends (*, G) join messages toward the RP and joins the distribution tree for that group.


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