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1. Does the first hop to the mc source have to be the RP?
No it doesn't. The RP can be anywhere in the network, although, somewhere in the center is prefereble. The first hop router however needs to know the address of the RP, either via static co...
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If I understand this correct, you have 1 rp in net A and 1 rp in net C. If so, these 2 rp:s need to be connected with each other using MSDP. This way the 2 rp:s is sharing information between each other, so both of them has knowledge of available...
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Look at this, there are some good stuff.
https://www.ciscopress.com/articles/article.asp?p=2348264
In short,
"preamble" and "start of frame" is like, hey there wake up.
then comes destination and source
after that comes lenght/type, and this one ...