HP FlexNetwork 7500 Series Configuration Manual page 312

Ip multicast
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The nodes without downstream receivers are pruned. A router that has no downstream
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receivers multicasts a prune message to all IPv6 PIM routers on the subnet. When the
upstream node receives the prune message, it removes the receiving interface from the (S, G)
entry. In this way, the upstream stream node stops forwarding subsequent packets addressed
to that IPv6 multicast group down to this node.
NOTE:
An (S, G) entry contains an IPv6 multicast source address S, an IPv6 multicast group address G, an
outgoing interface list, and an incoming interface.
A prune process is initiated by a leaf router. As shown in
have any downstream receivers initiates a prune process by sending a prune message toward the
IPv6 multicast source. This prune process goes on until only necessary branches are left in the IPv6
PIM-DM domain, and these necessary branches constitute an SPT.
Figure 93 SPT building
Source
Server
The pruned state of a branch has a finite holdtime timer. When the timer expires, IPv6 multicast data
is again forwarded to the pruned branch. The flood-and-prune cycle takes place periodically to
maintain the forwarding branches.
Graft
A previously pruned branch might have new downstream receivers. To reduce the latency for
resuming the forwarding capability of this branch, a graft mechanism is used as follows:
The node that needs to receive the IPv6 multicast data sends a graft message to its upstream
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node, telling it to rejoin the SPT.
After receiving this graft message on an interface, the upstream node adds the receiving
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interface to the outgoing interface list of the (S, G) entry. It also sends a graft-ack message to
the graft sender.
If the graft sender receives a graft-ack message, the graft process finishes. Otherwise, the graft
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sender continues to send graft messages at a graft retry interval until it receives an
acknowledgment from its upstream node.
Assert
On a subnet with more than one multicast router, the assert mechanism shuts off duplicate multicast
flows to the network. It does this by electing a unique multicast forwarder for the subnet.
SPT
Prune message
IPv6 multicast packets
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93, the router interface that does not
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