Hi everyone.
My name is Tim McConnaughy, and welcome to my course,
a deep dive on the PIM protocol.
I'm a network solutions architect and have worked with
multicast for years in the enterprise space, as well as in
support of financial customers.
Multicast is one of the least understood or perhaps most misunderstood
network solutions out there, but it doesn't have to be.
This course is a deep dive into the protocol, which makes all multicast
solutions possible, PIM. We'll examine the protocol from the theory and
design all the way down to the packet captures, including the multicast
best path selection and loop avoidance, any‑source multicast with PIM's
sparse mode, IPv6 multicast and the embedded RP, and bidirectional PIM
and the phantom RP.
By the end of this course, you'll have a deeper understanding of
the PIM protocol down to the packet level and its application to
different multicast solutions.
Before beginning the course,
you should be familiar with unicast routing, and it would
be helpful to understand IPv6 as well.
I hope you'll join me on this journey to learn PIM with the PIM deep dive course, at Pluralsight.