rfc-3618

Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)

B. Fenner (Editor), D. Meyer (Editor)

date2003-10 streamIETF areartg wgmsdp statusEXPERIMENTAL pages19 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3618 doi10.17487/RFC3618

The Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) describes a mechanism to connect multiple IP Version 4 Protocol Independent Multicast Sparse-Mode (PIM-SM) domains together. Each PIM-SM domain uses its own independent Rendezvous Point (RP) and does not have to depend on RPs in other domains. This document reflects existing MSDP implementations.