Ingress Replication Tunnels in Multicast VPN
2016
RFCs 6513, 6514, and other RFCs describe procedures by which a Service
Provider may offer Multicast VPN (MVPN) service to its customers.
These procedures create point-to-multipoint (P2MP) or multipoint-to-
multipoint (MP2MP) trees across the Service Provider's backbone.
One type of P2MP tree that may be used is known as an "Ingress
Replication (IR) tunnel". In an IR tunnel, a parent node need not be
directly connected to its child nodes. When a parent node has to send
a multicast data packet to its n child nodes, it does not use Layer 2
multicast, IP multicast, or MPLS multicast to do so. Rather, it makes
n individual copies, and then unicasts each copy, through an IP or
MPLS unicast tunnel, to exactly one child node. While the prior MVPN
specifications allow the use of IR tunnels, those specifications are
not always very clear or explicit about how the MVPN protocol elements
and procedures are applied to IR tunnels. This document updates RFCs
6513 and 6514 by adding additional details that are specific to the
use of IR tunnels.
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