Subject: [pim] (no subject)

From: "purvi desai" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 19:11:18 +0000

It is a very basic question, but I was wondering as why doesn't PIM-SM
use generic send/ack mechanism for join and prune, instead of periodic join messages.
It seems to me that with all the states PIM-SM protocol maintains, a sequence number
for join, prune message should not be a big issue And on other hand, we save on control traffic. I agree that for small lived multicast session, it might be an overhead, but definitely it won't detrimental to those applications.

And then it would be great to know what is the average life of multicast session in network today.  So if someone with this data can point me to it, it will be great.

thanks,

Purvi

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