I have been trying to find informations about these two terminologies (Asymmetric Protocol and Symmetric Protocol), but I could not find something useful.
Any help ?
Thanks
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc988
Page 12
((IGMP is an asymmetric protocol and is specified here from the point of view of a host, rather than a multicast agent)).
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2710.txt
Page 2
((MLD is an asymmetric protocol, specifying different behaviors for multicast listeners and for routers.For those multicast addresses))
Second:
Are the above (asymmetric protocol) related to "asymmetric routing" in the link below :
http://www.stonesoft.com/support/StoneBeat/?id=1377