Multicast

Posted 2022-02-23 yanhc

Source Specific Multicast (SSM)

The multicast that you are probably familiar with (PIM sparse and dense mode) using IGMPv2 are also known as ASM (Any Source Multicast). This means that the receivers really don’t care what source they receive multicast traffic from, all sources are accepted.

Using sparse mode our receivers require the RP (Rendezvous Point) to discover new sources in the network. SSM (Source Specific Multicast) requires IGMPv3 and lets us join multicast groups from specified source addresses.

Besides just joining any group, the receiver is able to receive the group from a specified source. When we use SSM / IGMPv3 there are no shared trees. We only build SPTs (Shortest Path Trees) towards our sources. This also means that we don’t use any RPs …you won’t need Auto-RP or Bootstrap anymore!

Another important point, with PIM-SSM we need to use IGMPv3. IGMP Version 3 supports source filtering, which is required for SSM.

https://aboutnetworks.net/multicast-lab5/