Does Bgp Use Multicast?

Multicast BGP is an enhanced BGP that allows the deployment of interdomain IPv6 multicast. Multiprotocol BGP carries routing information for multiple network layer protocol address families; for example, IPv6 address family and for IPv6 multicast routes.

Is BGP multicast?

BGP multicasting (MBGP) is an extension of the BGP unicast routing protocol. ... The address families available are unicast IPv4, multicast IPv4, and VPN-IPv4. When you enable BGP, the router employs unicast IPv4 addresses by default.

Does BGP use multicast or unicast?

MP-BGP supports unicast and multicast, and constructs different network topologies for each. MP-BGP can maintain unicast and multicast routes based on routing policies. The unicast routing policies and configurations supported by BGP-4 can mostly be applied to multicast.

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