INTRODUCTION qpimd aims to implement a PIM (Protocol Independent Multicast) daemon for the FRR Routing Suite. qpimd implements PIM-SM (Sparse Mode) of RFC 4601. Additionally MSDP has been implemented. In order to deliver end-to-end multicast routing control plane, qpimd includes the router-side of IGMPv[2|3] (RFC 3376). LICENSE qpimd - pimd for FRR Copyright (C) 2008 Everton da Silva Marques qpimd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. qpimd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with qpimd; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. HOME SITE qpimd lives at: https://github.com/freerangerouting/frr PLATFORMS qpimd has been tested with Debian Jessie. REQUIREMENTS qpimd requires FRR (2.0 or higher) CONFIGURATION COMMANDS See available commands in the file pimd/COMMANDS. KNOWN CAVEATS See list of known caveats in the file pimd/CAVEATS. SUPPORT Please post comments, questions, patches, bug reports at the support site: https://freerangerouting/frr RELATED WORK igmprt: An IGMPv3-router implementation - http://www.loria.fr/~lahmadi/igmpv3-router.html USC pimd: PIMv2-SM daemon - http://netweb.usc.edu/pim/pimd (URL broken in 2008-12-23) - http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/pimd (from Debian) troglobit pimd: This is the original USC pimd from http://netweb.usc.edu/pim/. In January 16, 2010 it was revived with the intention to collect patches floating around in Debian, Gentoo, Lintrack and other distribution repositories and to provide a central point of collaboration. - http://github.com/troglobit/pimd zpimd: zpimd is not dependent of zebra or any other routing daemon - ftp://robur.slu.se/pub/Routing/Zebra - http://sunsite2.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/routing/zpimd mrd6: an IPv6 Multicast Router for Linux systems - http://fivebits.net/proj/mrd6/ MBGP: Implementation of RFC 2858 for Quagga - git://git.coplanar.net/~balajig/quagga - http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/quagga/dev/18000 REFERENCES IANA Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Parameters http://www.iana.org/assignments/pim-parameters/pim-parameters.txt Address Family Numbers http://www.iana.org/assignments/address-family-numbers -- END --