Protocol Independent Multicast, PIM, allows existing networks to route IP multicast, regardless of what unicast routing protocol is in use. It is designed to use existing routing tables to make its multicast routing decisions. PIM-SM is suitable for sparsely located multicast subscribers, for dense mode operation mrouted is recommended, and for static multicast routing smcroute may be used. pimd is a lightweight standalone PIM-SM/SSM v2 multicast routing daemon. It is the original USC (netweb...
