| Exam 350-401 | Question id=5844 | Architecture |
What is the role of the RP in PIM sparse mode?
| A. |
The RP maintains default aging timeouts for all multicast streams requested by the receivers. | |
| B. |
The RP acts as a control-plane node only and does not receive or forward multicast packets. | |
| C. |
The RP is the multicast router that is the root of the PIM-SM shared multicast distribution tree. | |
| D. |
The RP responds to the PIM join messages with the source of a requested multicast group. |