HP 6125G HP 6125G & 6125G/XG Blade Switches IP Multicast Configuration - Page 299

Figure 81 SPT establishment in an IPv6 PIM-DM domain Source Server Host A Receiver Host B SPT Prune message IPv6 multicast packets Receiver Host C Graft Assert The flood-and-prune process takes place periodically. A pruned state timeout mechanism is provided. 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. 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. Where more than one multicast routers exists, the assert mechanism shuts off duplicate IPv6 multicast flows onto the same multi-access network. It does this by electing a unique IPv6 multicast forwarder on the multi-access network. 288