H3C LS-3100-52P-OVS-H3 Operation Manual page 960

S5500-ei series ethernet switches
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Multicast source registration
The purpose of multicast source registration is to inform the RP about the existence of the multicast
source.
Figure 1-6 Multicast source registration
As shown in
Figure
1-6, the multicast source registers with the RP as follows:
1)
When the multicast source S sends the first multicast packet to multicast group G, the DR directly
connected with the multicast source, upon receiving the multicast packet, encapsulates the packet
in a PIM register message, and sends the message to the corresponding RP by unicast.
2)
When the RP receives the register message, it extracts the multicast packet from the register
message and forwards the multicast packet down the RPT, and sends an (S, G) join message hop
by hop toward the multicast source. Thus, the routers along the path from the RP to the multicast
source constitute an SPT branch. Each router on this branch generates an (S, G) entry in its
forwarding table. The DR at the multicast source side is the root, while the RP is the leaf, of the
SPT.
3)
The subsequent multicast data from the multicast source travels along the established SPT to the
RP, and then the RP forwards the data along the RPT to the receivers. When the multicast traffic
arrives at the RP along the SPT, the RP sends a register-stop message to the source-side DR by
unicast to stop the source registration process.
The RP is configured to initiate an SPT switchover as described in this section. Otherwise, the DR at the
multicast source side keeps encapsulating multicast data in register messages and the registration
process will not stop unless no outgoing interfaces exist in the (S, G) entry on the RP.
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