H3C S5500-EI - RPF Check Implementation in Ipv6 Multicast

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• IPv6 MBGP routing table—Contains IPv6 multicast routing information
When a router performs an RPF check, it searches its IPv6 unicast routing table and IPv6 MBGP routing
table at the same time. The specific process is as follows:
1. The router chooses each optimal route from the IPv6 unicast routing table and the IPv6 MBGP
routing table:
{ The router searches its IPv6 unicast routing table by using the IPv6 address of the packet source
as the destination address and automatically selects the optimal route as the RPF route. The
outgoing interface in the corresponding routing entry is the RPF interface and the next hop is
the RPF neighbor. The router considers the path along which the IPv6 multicast packet from the
RPF neighbor arrived on the RPF interface to be the shortest path that leads back to the source.
{ The router automatically chooses an optimal IPv6 MBGP route by searching its MBGP routing
table, and using the IPv6 address of the packet source as the destination address. The outgoing
interface in the corresponding routing entry is the RPF interface and the next hop is the RPF
neighbor.
2. The router selects one of these optimal routes as the RPF route. The selection process is as follows:
{ If configured to use the longest match principle, the router selects the longest match route from
these optimal routes. If these routes have the same prefix length, the router selects the route with
a higher priority. If these routes have the same priority, the router selects the IPv6 MBGP route
as the RPF route.
{ If not configured to use the longest match principle, the router selects the route with a higher
priority. If these routes have the same priority, the router selects the IPv6 MBGP route as the RPF
route.
The term "packet source" can mean different things in different situations:
• For a packet that traveling along the shortest path tree (SPT) from the multicast source to the
receivers or the rendezvous point (RP), the packet source for RPF check is the multicast source.
• For a packet that traveling along the rendezvous point tree (RPT) from the RP to the receivers, or
along the source-side RPT from the multicast source to the RP, the packet source for RPF check is the
RP.
• For a bootstrap message from the bootstrap router (BSR), the packet source for RPF check is the BSR.
For more information about the concepts of SPT, RPT, source-side RPT, RP, and BSR, see "Configuring IPv6
P
IM (available only on the S5500-EI)."
RPF check implementation in IPv6 multicast
Implementing an RPF check on each received IPv6 multicast data packet would heavily burden the router.
The use of an IPv6 multicast forwarding table is the solution to this issue. When creating an IPv6 multicast
routing entry and an IPv6 multicast forwarding entry for an IPv6 multicast packet, the router sets the RPF
interface of the packet as the incoming interface of the (S, G) entry. After receiving an (S, G) IPv6
multicast packet, the router first searches its IPv6 multicast forwarding table: