White Paper Abstract:
This document, general multicast topics such as the multicast group concept, IP multicast addresses, and Layer 2 multicast addresses will be reviewed. Then intradomain multicast protocols, such as Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP), Cisco Group Management Protocol (CGMP), Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) and Pragmatic General Multicast (PGM), and interdomain protocols, such as Multiprotocol Border Gateway Protocol (MBGP), Multicast Source Directory Protocol (MSDP), and Source Specific Multicast (SSM), will be reviewed.