Introduction - Motorola BSR 64000 Reference Manual

DVMRP Commands

Introduction

This chapter contains the Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP)
commands used with the BSR 64000™.
DVMRP is the original IP Multicast routing protocol. It was designed to run over both
multicast LANs as well as non-multicast routers. In this case, the IP Multicast packets
are tunneled through the routers as unicast packets. This replicates the packets and
affects performance, but provides intermediate solution for IP Multicast routing on
the Internet while router vendors decide to support native IP Multicast routing.
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