ExhibitReferring to the exhibit.

The exhibit illustrates a PIM multicast environment where router R2 has received a multicast packet from Source 1 (192.168.100.10) on its ge-0/0/4.0 interface. To prevent loops, PIM-SM uses a mechanism called Reverse Path Forwarding (RPF).

RPF Check Process (Option A): When a multicast packet arrives, the router performs an RPF check by looking up the source's IP address in its unicast routing table (typically inet.0).

The exhibit's command output, show multicast rpf 192.168.100.10, explicitly shows that for the source network $192.168.100.0/24$, the RPF interface is ge-0/0/1.0.

Because the packet actually arrived on ge-0/0/4.0 instead of the expected ge-0/0/1.0 interface, the RPF check fails.

Packet Discard (Option C): According to standard PIM-SM operation in Junos OS 24.4, if a multicast packet fails the RPF check—meaning it arrived on an interface that the router does not use to reach the source via unicast—the packet is discarded. This is a fundamental loop-prevention mechanism that ensures multicast traffic is only accepted from the shortest path toward the source.

Option B is incorrect because the router will not add any interfaces to the Outgoing Interface List (OIL) for a packet that fails the initial RPF check.

Option D is incorrect because the exhibit clearly shows the interface in the RPF table (ge-0/0/1.0) is different from the interface where the packet was received (ge-0/0/4.0).