Reducing convergence time by a protocol independent multicast (PIM) router
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Oct 7, 2003
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Feb 25, 1999
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A technique for reducing reconvergence time by a reconverging device in a PIM-SM domain of a communication system involves sending by the reconverging device to a neighboring device a reconvergence message including a reconvergence indicator, such as a randomly selected Generation Identifier value. In response to the reconvergence message, the neighboring device sends to the reconverging device a PIM Bootstrap Message identifying the Rendezvous Point devices in the PIM-SM domain. The reconverging device creates the appropriate PIM-SM states for the Rendezvous Point devices. Additionally, the neighboring device sends to the reconverging device a PIM Join/Prune Message for each multicast group for which the neighboring device supports a downstream multicast group member. The reconverging device creates the appropriate routing entries for the multicast group memberships, and forwards each PIM Join/Prune Messages towards its corresponding Rendezvous Pointer device. Additionally, the reconverging device detects any directly connected multicast group members, and sends to the neighboring device a PIM Join/Prune Message for each multicast group for which the reconverging device supports a directly connected multicast group member.
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