摘要 |
A method for maintaining a multicast forwarding table item and a Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) router are disclosed. The method includes: receiving, by a PIM router, a multicast leave message for leaving a multicast group through an input port, finding, by the PIM router, a multicast forwarding table item corresponding to the multicast group in the PIM router, deleting the input port through which the multicast leave message is received from an output port list of the multicast forwarding table item, if there is a switcher identifier on the input port in the output port list and the output port list of the multicast forwarding table item is empty, deleting the multicast forwarding table item immediately or accelerating the deletion of the multicast forwarding table item, wherein the switcher identifier indicates that the input port corresponds to a switcher. |