RFC 5015: Bidirectional Protocol Independent Multicast (BIDIR-PIM)

This document discusses Bidirectional PIM (BIDIR-PIM), a variant of PIM Sparse-Mode that builds bidirectional shared trees connecting multicast sources and…

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Outgoing relationships (5 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2401: Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 3376: Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 3
Normative reference — RFC 4601: Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised)
Normative reference — RFC 2710: Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6
Informative reference — RFC 4760: Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4

Incoming relationships (24 related RFCs)

Updated by, Informatively referenced by — RFC 8736: PIM Message Type Space Extension and Reserved Bits
Updated by, Informatively referenced by — RFC 9436: PIM Message Type Space Extension and Reserved Bits
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6831: The Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) for Multicast Environments
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5059: Bootstrap Router (BSR) Mechanism for Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7582: Multicast Virtual Private Network (MVPN): Using Bidirectional P-Tunnels
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6807: Population Count Extensions to Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7126: Recommendations on Filtering of IPv4 Packets Containing IPv4 Options
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9128: YANG Data Model for Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6559: A Reliable Transport Mechanism for PIM
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7287: Mobile Multicast Sender Support in Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) Domains
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8220: Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) over Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6513: Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP VPNs
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6514: BGP Encodings and Procedures for Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP VPNs
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5384: The Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Join Attribute Format
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6037: Cisco Systems' Solution for Multicast in BGP/MPLS IP VPNs
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5501: Requirements for Multicast Support in Virtual Private LAN Services
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5757: Multicast Mobility in Mobile IP Version 6 (MIPv6): Problem Statement and Brief Survey
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5132: IP Multicast MIB
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6754: Protocol Independent Multicast Equal-Cost Multipath (ECMP) Redirect
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6814: Formally Deprecating Some IPv4 Options
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6826: Multipoint LDP In-Band Signaling for Point-to-Multipoint and Multipoint-to-Multipoint Label Switched Paths
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8364: PIM Flooding Mechanism (PFM) and Source Discovery (SD)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8815: Deprecating Any-Source Multicast (ASM) for Interdomain Multicast
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7438: Multipoint LDP (mLDP) In-Band Signaling with Wildcards