Logical identifier addressing a specific group of devices on a network
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A multicast address is a logical identifier for a group of hosts in a computer network that are available to process datagrams or frames intended to be multicast for a designated network service. Multicast addressing can be used in the link layer (layer 2 in the OSI model), such as Ethernet multicast, and at the internet layer (layer 3 for OSI) for Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) or Version 6 (IPv6) multicast.
A multicastaddress is a logical identifier for a group of hosts in a computer network that are available to process datagrams or frames intended to be...
primary addressing and routing methodologies common in networking: unicast addressing, anycast addressing, and multicastaddressing. A unicast address identifies...
IP-specific form of multicast and is used for streaming media and other network applications. It uses specially reserved multicastaddress blocks in IPv4 and...
some addresses are reserved for special purposes such as private networks (≈18 million addresses) and multicastaddressing (≈270 million addresses). IPv4...
networking, multicast is a type of group communication where data transmission is addressed to a group of destination computers simultaneously. Multicast can...
Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) is a Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) family multicast routing protocol defined by Experimental RFC 3618...
all nodes multicast group at address ff02::1, which is analogous to IPv4 multicasting to address 224.0.0.1. IPv6 also provides for new multicast implementations...
networks to establish multicast group memberships. IGMP is an integral part of IP multicast and allows the network to direct multicast transmissions only...
message sent to a broadcast address may be received by all network-attached hosts. In contrast, a multicastaddress is used to address a specific group of devices...
Protocol-Independent Multicast (PIM) is a family of multicast routing protocols for Internet Protocol (IP) networks that provide one-to-many and many-to-many...
In computer networking, the multicast DNS (mDNS) protocol resolves hostnames to IP addresses within small networks that do not include a local name server...
individual MAC addresses: for example, based on a configurable list of accepted multicast MAC addresses. This is called multicastaddressing. The IEEE has...
(232) addresses. IPv4 reserves special address blocks for private networks (~18 million addresses) and multicastaddresses (~270 million addresses). IPv4...
is addressed to a group of destination computers simultaneously: Multicast Source Discovery Protocol, Multicast BGP, Protocol Independent Multicast. Multicast...
extension of NDP with extra security. Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) is used by IPv6 routers for discovering multicast listeners on a directly attached...
OSPF also uses multicastaddressing for distributing route information within a broadcast domain. It reserves the multicastaddresses 224.0.0.5 (IPv4)...
private addresses, or locally administered addresses that may not be unique. Special network addresses are allocated as broadcast or multicastaddresses. These...
system with multicastaddressing to a specifically designated IP multicastaddress at UDP port number 1900. In IPv4, the multicastaddress is 239.255.255...
Route and Record (LSRR) Option to hide the multicastaddress from the non-multicast aware routers. A multicast-aware destination router would remove the...
provide unicast addresses for networks of three different network sizes. Class D is for multicast networking and the class E address range is reserved...
The MulticastAddress Dynamic Client Allocation Protocol (MADCAP) is a communication protocol that allows hosts to request multicastaddresses from a server...
port-by-port basis.: Clause 16.1 Multicast transmissions use IP multicastaddressing, for which multicast group addresses are defined for IPv4 and IPv6 (see...
destination address of this link or to the 48-bit reserved multicastaddress of 01-80-C2-00-00-01.: Annex 31B.3.3 The use of a well-known address makes it...
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