Upstream Router Detection for RPF (1) Problem PIM uses a separate routing mechanism for Reverse Path Forwarding (RPF) Typical case: just refer to the unicast routing table The gateway for a destination must be one of PIM neighbors An IPv6 PIM neighbor is identified as a link-local address. -> a global address must not be in the unicast routing table. This constraint is not necessarily satisfied in IPv6: IPv6 allows a node to assign multiple addresses on each interface. Global addresses can be in the routing table via BGP4+ or by hand. Even multiple link-local addresses can be assigned on a single interface. RPF and PIM do not work due to the mismaches.