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Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol

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The Distance Vector Mulicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP), is used to share information between routers and transport Multicast packets among networks.

It's based in the RIP protocol to forward packets: the router generate a routing table with the Multicat group that it has knowledge with its corresponding distance (number of devices -routers- in the middle to reach it). When a Multicast packet is received by a router, it's forwarded by router's interfaces specified in the routing table.

The DVMRP protocol uses IGMP messages to exchange information with other routers.


--216.72.67.201 02:41, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC) LioSan

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