IP multicast is a method of sending Internet Protocol (IP) datagrams to a group of interested receivers in a single transmission. It is the IP-specific...
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or InfiniBand multicast. Network-assisted multicast may also be implemented at the Internet layer using IP multicast. In IP multicast the implementation...
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addresses that are reserved for IP multicasting and that are registered with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Multicast addresses in IPv6 use the...
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Internet Protocol television (redirect from Ip tv)
Protocol (IP) networks. Usually sold and run by a telecom provider, it consists of broadcast live television that is streamed over the Internet (multicast) —...
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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...
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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...
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IGMP snooping (redirect from Multicast snooping)
and routers and maintain a map of which links need which IP multicast transmission. Multicasts may be filtered from the links which do not need them, conserving...
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Multicast routing is one of the routing protocols in IP networking. There are several multicast routing protocols supporting communications where data...
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Hostname IP address blocking IP address spoofing IP aliasing IP multicast List of assigned /8 IPv4 address blocks Reverse DNS lookup Virtual IP address...
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Mbone (redirect from Multicast backbone)
(short for "multicast backbone") was an experimental backbone and virtual network built on top of the Internet for carrying IP multicast traffic on the...
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networks to establish multicast group memberships. IGMP is an integral part of IP multicast and allows the network to direct multicast transmissions only...
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facilitate the transportation of IP multicast packets among networks. It formed the basis of the Internet's historic multicast backbone, Mbone. The protocol...
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Broadcast address (redirect from Broadcast ip address)
address may be received by all network-attached hosts. In contrast, a multicast address is used to address a specific group of devices, and a unicast...
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multicast IP address to the packet's IP destination field. The other approach in the DVMRP specification was IP in IP, as described above. IP in IP soon...
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Overlay network (redirect from Overlay multicast)
communication in the network. The limited deployment of IP Multicast, a best-effort network layer multicast protocol, has led to considerable interest in alternate...
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Multiprotocol BGP (redirect from Multicast BGP)
it supports unicast and multicast variants of each. Multiprotocol BGP allows information about the topology of IP multicast-capable routers to be exchanged...
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can be used for commercial, independent, and amateur multicasts. Unlike traditional IP multicast, peercasting can facilitate on-demand content delivery...
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SMART Multicast is an experimental method of secure reliable IP multicast. It allows a user to forward IP datagrams to an unlimited group of receivers...
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IPv6 (redirect from IP version 6)
Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location...
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IPsec (redirect from IP Security)
decryption and verification keys from the security association database. For IP multicast a security association is provided for the group, and is duplicated across...
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Reverse-path forwarding (redirect from Multicast reverse path forwarding)
forwarding of multicast packets in multicast routing and to help prevent IP address spoofing in unicast routing. In standard unicast IP routing, the router...
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Multicast Router Discovery (MRD) is a network-layer protocol that enables devices on an IP network to dynamically detect and track the presence of multicast...
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Classful network (redirect from Classes of IP addresses)
RFC 1338. MULTICAST_IP_ADDR. General Electric Digital Solutions. CIMPLICITY 10.0. In network prefix or Classless Inter-Domain Routing ( CIDR) notation, IP multicast...
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Multilayer switch (redirect from IP switch)
awareness of IP multicast through IGMP snooping. With this awareness, a layer-3 switch can increase efficiency by delivering the traffic of a multicast group...
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Streaming media (redirect from Multicast stream)
manage the delivery of multicast streams to the groups of recipients on a LAN. One of the challenges in deploying IP multicast is that routers and firewalls...
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defines a multicast discovery protocol to locate services on a local network. It operates over TCP and UDP port 3702 and uses IP multicast address 239...
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group of receivers. In interactive multicast at the data link or network layer, such as IP multicast, Ethernet multicast or MBMS service over cellular network...
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sent using IP multicast and the User Datagram Protocol (UDP). Under SAP, senders periodically transmit SDP descriptions to a well-known multicast address...
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Moreno and Bill Dufresne, 12 feb 2018 by Cisco Press IP Multicast, Volume I: Cisco IP Multicast Networking by Josh Loveless, Ray Blair and Arvind Durai...
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Groups of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the inventor of IP multicast, and the lead designer of the new version of the Internet Protocol, IPv6...
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