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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) is a Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) family multicast routing protocol defined by Experimental RFC 3618...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

4294967296 (232) addresses. IPv4 reserves special address blocks for private networks (224 + 220 + 216 ≈ 18 million addresses) and multicast addresses (228 ≈ 268...

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...

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

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...

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

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

private addresses, or locally administered addresses that may not be unique. Special network addresses are allocated as broadcast or multicast addresses. These...

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...

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

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

Route and Record (LSRR) Option to hide the multicast address from the non-multicast aware routers. A multicast-aware destination router would remove the...

found success. Examples of multicast address definitions in the domain mcast.net are: Multicast .net "Multicast IPv4 Address Space Registry". IANA. P....

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...

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...