Documents relating to Protocol Independent Multicast




1)  Readme for Input to the Pim Generator Graphical User Input
     guiinput.html


2)  Common problems faced while developing the code in C++  and java for the packet Generator.

     problems.html

 

3)  Latest PIM-SM draft

     draft-ietf-idmr-pim-sm-spec-08.txt
 

4)  Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM):

    rfc2362.txt

5)  PIM-DM
    Dense Mode Protocol Independent Multicast uses Flood and prune mechanism to build up its Multicast
    Route information base and uses unicast routing information for flooding.
    draft-ietf-pim-dm-new-v2-04.txt

6) DVMRP is provides mechanism for connection-less datagram delivery to a group of hosts
    It dynamically generates IP Multicast delivery trees using a technique called
   
Reverse Path Multicasting (RPM) [Deer90].
   
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-idmr-dvmrp-v3-11.txt

7)  IGMP-V2
The hosts report their group membership to the routers through this protocol.
ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-idmr-igmp-v2-05.txt