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Figure 100 SPT establishment in an IPv6 PIM-DM domain
The flood-and-prune process occurs periodically. A pruned state timeout mechanism exists. A pruned
branch restarts multicast forwarding when the pruned state times out and then is pruned again when it
no longer has any multicast receiver.
Graft
When a host attached to a pruned node joins an IPv6 multicast group, to reduce the join latency, IPv6
PIM-DM uses the graft mechanism to resume IPv6 multicast data forwarding to that branch. The process
is as follows:
1. The node that needs to receive IPv6 multicast data sends a graft message toward its upstream node,
as a request to join the SPT again.
2. After receiving this graft message, the upstream node puts the interface on which the graft was
received into the forwarding state and responds with a graft-ack message to the graft sender.
3. If the node that sent a graft message does not receive a graft-ack message from its upstream node,
it keeps sending graft messages at a configurable interval until it receives an acknowledgment
from its upstream node.
Assert
The assert mechanism shuts off duplicate IPv6 multicast flows onto the same multi-access network, where
more than one multicast router exists, by electing a unique IPv6 multicast forwarder on the multi-access
network.
Source
Server
Host A
Host B
Host C
Receiver
Receiver
IPv6 multicast packets
SPT
Prune message