
Configuring IP Multicasting and Multimedia Services
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Concepts and Terminology
A router configured as an IGMP Relay (IGMP-R) device provides the following
services for an MOSPF AS boundary router:
• Solicits multicast group membership information by sending IGMP host
membership queries to hosts on its attached local networks
• Receives host membership reports and unsolicited join messages from hosts
on attached networks and forwards them to the MOSPF boundary router
• Forwards multicast data to group members on locally attached networks
For more information about IGMP, see Chapter 3
.
An IGMP-R device uses RIP to advertise its local networks. It does not run any
multicast routing protocols (DVMRP or MOSPF).
An IGMP-R device is located physically between the IGMP hosts and the MOSPF
boundary router. The hosts are considered to lie downstream of IGMP-R; the
boundary router is upstream. The upstream link to the MOSPF router can be a
frame relay link or a dial connection.
For redundancy, an IGMP-R device can be connected to two boundary routers, a
primary router and a backup router. For example, Figure 9-1
shows an IGMP-R
device with downstream interfaces to three networks containing IGMP hosts. The
IGMP-R device also has an upstream interface to a primary boundary router and a
second upstream interface to a backup boundary router on a dial-up line.
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