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...

networking, multicast is a type of group communication where data transmission is addressed to a group of destination computers simultaneously. Multicast can...

solicited-node multicast address is an IPv6 multicast address used by the Neighbor Discovery Protocol to determine the link layer address associated with...

primary addressing and routing methodologies common in networking: unicast addressing, anycast addressing, and multicast addressing. A unicast address identifies...

some addresses are reserved for special purposes such as private networks (≈18 million addresses) and multicast addressing (≈270 million addresses). IPv4...

IP-specific form of multicast and is used for streaming media and other network applications. It uses specially reserved multicast address blocks in IPv4 and...

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...

networks to establish multicast group memberships. IGMP is an integral part of IP multicast and allows the network to direct multicast transmissions only...

interest in traffic to a multicast address. The multicast network must discover all multicast sources sending to that address, and route data from all...

provide unicast addresses for networks of three different network sizes. Class D is for multicast networking and the class E address range is reserved...

message sent to a broadcast address may be received by all network-attached hosts. In contrast, a multicast address is used to address a specific group of devices...

portion of an address to 64 bits. The addressing architecture of IPv6 allows three different types of transmission: unicast, anycast and multicast.: 210  IPv6...

networks (224 + 220 + 216 ≈ 18 million addresses) and multicast addresses (228 ≈ 268 million addresses). IPv4 addresses may be represented in any notation...

Cotton; L. Vegoda; D. Meyer (March 2010). IANA Guidelines for IPv4 Multicast Address Assignments. IETF. doi:10.17487/RFC5771. ISSN 2070-1721. BCP 51. RFC...

individual MAC addresses: for example, based on a configurable list of accepted multicast MAC addresses. This is called multicast addressing. The IEEE has...

IPv6 multicast address respectively. All-Nodes Multicast (ff02::1) - 239.192.0.1 All-Routers Multicast (ff02::2) - 239.192.0.2 Solicited Node Multicast for...

is addressed to a group of destination computers simultaneously: Multicast Source Discovery Protocol, Multicast BGP, Protocol Independent Multicast. Multicast...

listen on UDP port 5355 on the following link-scope Multicast address: IPv4 - 224.0.0.252, MAC address 01-00-5E-00-00-FC IPv6 - FF02:0:0:0:0:0:1:3 (this...

OSPF also uses multicast addressing for distributing route information within a broadcast domain. It reserves the multicast addresses 224.0.0.5 (IPv4)...

Patel, Baiju V.; Shah, Munil (December 1999). "Protocol Description". Multicast Address Dynamic Client Allocation Protocol. Thanks to Rajeev Byrisetty, Steve...

system with multicast addressing to a specifically designated IP multicast address at UDP port number 1900. In IPv4, the multicast address is 239.255.255...

case; e.g. IPv6 addresses beginning with ff02: (ff02::/16), and IPv4 addresses beginning with 224.0.0. (224.0.0.0/24) are multicast addresses that are link-local...

multiple addresses per interface, although many do. Another is that not every IPv4 host implements distributed name resolution (e.g., multicast DNS), so...

Multicast DNS (mDNS) is a computer networking protocol that resolves hostnames to IP addresses within small networks that do not include a local name server...

extension of NDP with extra security. Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) is used by IPv6 routers for discovering multicast listeners on a directly attached...

destination address of this link or to the 48-bit reserved multicast address of 01-80-C2-00-00-01.: Annex 31B.3.3  The use of a well-known address makes it...

Large-scale TE "Harsh" 2007: Large-scale L2VPN 2009: Label Switching Multicast 2011: MPLS transport profile In 1996 a group from Ipsilon Networks proposed...

Cotton; L. Vegoda; D. Meyer (March 2010). IANA Guidelines for IPv4 Multicast Address Assignments. IETF. doi:10.17487/RFC5771. ISSN 2070-1721. BCP 51. RFC...

of multicast that supports a great number of multicast sessions with a small number of recipients in each. It adds all the destination IP addresses in...

port-by-port basis.: Clause 16.1  Multicast transmissions use IP multicast addressing, for which multicast group addresses are defined for IPv4 and IPv6 (see...