Hello everyone, I am pleased to announce the public release of pimbd, the PIM implementation that was demonstrated during the last Bits and Bites in Prague.
https://github.com/Oryon/pimbd <https://github.com/Oryon/pimbd> It is a compliant IPv6 PIM-BIDIR implementation which also does: - IPv4 multicast routing in a non-compliant way by including IPv4 groups in IPv6 Join/Prunes (Because it works although it is forbidden by the specs). It is obviously disabled if you don’t enable IGMPv3 listener. - Implements the PIM-SSBIDIR extensions: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pfister-pim-ssbidir-00 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pfister-pim-ssbidir-00> - Implements the PIM border proxy extensions: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pfister-pim-border-proxy-00 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pfister-pim-border-proxy-00> - Can be configured by HNCP in order to function without any human configuration: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pfister-homenet-multicast-00 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pfister-homenet-multicast-00> It runs on any Linux (given it has the required multicast routing support). An OpenWrt package has been published in the routing feed: https://github.com/openwrt-routing/packages <https://github.com/openwrt-routing/packages>. As stated above, pimbd can be configured by HNCP, and will if you install both pimbd and hnetd (https://github.com/sbyx/hnetd <https://github.com/sbyx/hnetd>) packages on your OpenWrt router. You will notice that the three above drafts have expired. I have no intention to revive them unless there is a strong support from the homenet working group to keep moving this way. I do believe that a routed home network will need routed multicast to work ‘somehow’. One of the purpose of this implementation was to provide a possibly-temporary patch to this missing part in our homenet implementation. At least, now, we can route multicast ! As for the IETF work, BIER based solutions might be interesting to consider. Thanks to all those who contributed. Pull requests are welcome. Have a nice day, - Pierre
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