Maintains an independent set of multicast forwarding mechanisms for each VPN, including the
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multicast protocols, PIM neighbor information, and multicast routing table. In a VPN, the device
forwards multicast data based on the forwarding table or routing table for that VPN.
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Implements the isolation between different VPNs.
The PE devices also implements information exchange and data conversion between the public
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network and VPN instances.
As shown in
Figure
10, multicast data from a multicast source in VPN A to a multicast group arrives at
only receivers that belong to both the group and VPN A. The multicast data is multicast both in VPN A
and on the public network.
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