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The Multicast Source Discovery Protocol, or MSDP, is a protocol to allow multiple PIM sparse-mode domains to work together. Because PIM-SM requires a single RP router for each group it doesn’t scale very well across administrative domains. With MSDP each domain has its own RPs and MSDP provides the conduit for the RPs to learn about each other’s active multicast groups.
