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Discovers PIM neighbors and maintains adjacency
Requests to receive multicast traffic for a specific group (or S,G)
Requests to stop receiving multicast traffic for a specific group (or S,G)
Resolves which PIM router forwards multicast traffic on a multi-access network
Distributes RP information in PIM Sparse Mode
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PIM Hello: Discovers PIM neighbors and maintains adjacency
PIM Hello discovers neighbors and maintains adjacency; Join is used to join a multicast tree; Prune is used to leave a tree; Assert resolves duplicate forwarding on a multi-access network; Bootstrap messages are used in PIM SM to distribute RP information.
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