Multicast protocols
Layer 3 multicast protocols include:
- IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol) for last-hop multicast group management. Current RFCs include:
IGMPv2 (RFC 2236)
IGMPv3 (RFC 3376)
- PIM (Protocol Independent Multicast) for intra-domain multicast routing.
PIM-SM (sparse mode) (RFC 4601)
BSR (Bootstrap router) (RFC 5059)
MLD (Multicast Listener Discovery) v1 and v2
MLD v1 - RFC 2710
MLD v2 - RFC 3810
Layer 2 multicast protocol:
IGMP snooping for IPv4 multicast filtering.
MLD snooping for IPv6 multicast filtering.