Subject: Re: PIMv2 changes for multicast vpn

From: Yiqun Cai <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:14:43 -0700

The draft you referred to doesn't require any change in the PIM  
protocol to carry information about which VPN (or VRF) a Join/Prune  
is intended for.

The implementation on a PE router is responsible to populate the  
multicast routing table upon receiving and processing the PIM packets.

On Jun 21, 2006, at 10:37 PM, Arut Selvan wrote:

> Hello Yiqun,
>
> I was referring to the changes required to PIM-SM if operating in a  
> VPN environment.
>
> Shouldn't PIM be VPN aware bcos the multicast routes would be  
> populated based on
>
> a the VPN the route belongs to ?
>
> -- asm

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