Definitions

1. Multicasting is a relatively new technology within the Internet Protocol family. (Web site)
2. Multicasting is described in the Windows Sockets 2.0 specification and in the IGMP section of this document. (Web site)
3. IP multicasting is the transmission of an IP datagram to a "host group", a set of zero or more hosts identified by a single IP destination address. (Web site)
4. IP multicasting (the ability to send IP datagrams to multiple nodes in a logical group) is an important building block for applications such as video. (Web site)
5. Multicasting is one technique proposed to efficiently distribute datagrams to a set of interested group members on the interconnected networks.

Key Frame Relay Lmi Extensions

1. Key Frame Relay LMI extensions include global addressing, virtual circuit status messages, and multicasting. (Web site)

System

1. If the system does not support IP multicasting the address(es) will not be included. (Web site)

Transmission

1. We learned that ICMP reports errors in the transmission of network data and that IGMP supports multicasting. (Web site)

Extended

1. Support for IP Multicasting The Windows Sockets API has been extended to provide support for IP multicasting.

Switch

1. Multicast support: A switch may support multicasting, that is, replication of packets across multiple output ports. (Web site)
2. The switch supports ATM, Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet uplinks, and LAN Emulation, multicasting and directory-enabled services.

Desirable

1. Network layer support for multicasting is desirable, but not required.

Option

1. Selecting this option makes the IP: broadcast GRE over IP option available, which provides support for multicasting with the tunnel. (Web site)

Recipients

1. The local area network includes the ability to perform multicasting, which can transfer the network packets unreliably to one or more recipients. (Web site)

Internet Protocol

1. This memo specifies the extensions required of a host implementation of the Internet Protocol (IP) to support multicasting.

Messages

1. Multicasting can be used to send messages to a group of computers at the same time with only one copy of the message.

Bootp

1. The applications built on UDP (multicasting, the DNS, TFTP, and BOOTP) are described after UDP has been examined. (Web site)

Network Packets

1. The multicasting of network packets occurs at a low level of the network protocol. (Web site)

Internet Hosts

1. Internet Group Management Protocol: - It allows internet hosts to participate in multicasting.

Specification

1. Like ICMP, IGMP is a integral part of IP. It is required to be implemented in full by all hosts conforming to level 2 of the IP multicasting specification. (Web site)
2. All hosts conforming to level 2 of the IP multicasting specification require IGMP. IP Abbreviation of Internet Protocol, pronounced as two separate letters.
3. This specification supersedes that given in RFC 966, and constitutes a proposed protocol standard for IP multicasting in the Internet.

Routing

1. Coverage also includes routing and addressing strategies, VLANs, multicasting, IPv6, and more.

Router

1. This is the default if the router does not support IP multicasting.

Multicast Group

1. In the case of multicasting, one packet is sent to a multicast group identified by a single IP destination group address.

Network Resources

1. IP multicasting is a more efficient way to use network resources, especially for bandwidth-intensive services such as audio and video. (Web site)
2. IPv6 provides the opportunity to build applications that make much better use of server and network resources through its "multicasting" option. (Web site)

Data

1. GigE Vision allows multicasting of image data simultaneously to multiple computers for distributing the image processing load across separate computers.
2. Multicasting might eliminate an organization's need to maintain parallel networks for voice, video, and data.

Atm Network

1. An overlaid point-to-multipoint connection is the third potential solution to the problem of multicasting over an ATM network.

Network Interface Cards

1. This allows IP multicasting to easily take advantage of the hardware-level multicasting supported by network interface cards.

Multicast Packets

1. If RIPv2 is enabled, multicast packets are sent on interfaces that support multicasting. (Web site)

Arpa-Internet

1. This specification supersedes that given in RFC 966, and constitutes a proposed protocol standard for IP multicasting in the ARPA-Internet. (Web site)

Interface

1. It does this by periodically multicasting or broadcasting a Router Advertisement to each interface on which it is enabled. (Web site)
2. Therefore, routers must listen to multicast address 224.0.0.4 on every physical interface that supports multicasting. (Web site)

Router Advertisements

1. On systems supporting IP multicasting, the Router Advertisements are by default send to the all-hosts multicast address 224.0.0.1.

Fddi Networks

1. This method shall be used in FDDI networks if IP multicasting is to be supported. (Web site)

Multicast Routing Protocol

1. Multicast routers use this information, in conjunction with a multicast routing protocol, to support IP multicasting across the Internet. (Web site)

Mbone

1. The MBone is a virtual network consisting of those portions of the Internet, sometimes called multicast islands, in which multicasting has been enabled. (Web site)
2. MBONE - Being on the MBONE means you are on a network that supports multicasting. (Web site)

Addresses

1. The IPv4 address scheme assigns Class D addresses for IP multicasting. (Web site)
2. If the system does not support IP multicasting the addresses will not be included. (Web site)

Rfc 1112

1. IGMP is an integral part of IP. IGMP is defined in RFC 1112, Host Extensions for IP Multicasting.
2. Internet Group Management Protocol is defined in RFC 1112 as the standard for IP multicasting in the Internet. (Web site)

Internet Routers

1. A collection of Internet routers that support IP multicasting. (Web site)

Packets

1. Some conventional Ethernet switches route IP packets and, therefore, support IP multicasting. (Web site)
2. If the network technology supports hardware-based multicasting, then the network interface is told to pass up packets for a specific multicast address. (Web site)
3. If the network technology supports hardware-based multicasting, the network interface is told to pass up packets for a specific IP multicast address.

Group

1. Host group multicasting (see Sections 2.8 and 4.6) will soon provide a much more efficient mechanism than directed broadcasting. (Web site)
2. To achieve this, a host first expresses its interest in joining a group by multicasting an IGMP host membership report [5] across its attached link. (Web site)
3. Sending a message to a group is called multicasting, and its routing algorithm is called multicast routing. (Web site)

Networks

1. IGMP provides gateways that are capable of multicast routing with the information required to support IP multicasting across multiple networks.
2. Teleconferencing and videoconferencing also use multicasting, but require more robust protocols and networks. (Web site)
3. Using IGMP, each router that supports multicasting is made aware of which host groups are on which networks.

Network

1. IP multicasting provides the capability for an application to send a single IP datagram that a group of hosts in a network can receive. (Web site)
2. Broadcasting sends a message to everyone on the network whereas multicasting sends a message to a select list of recipients. (Web site)
3. One way to view broadcasting is as an imperfect substitute for multicasting, the sending of messages to a subset of the hosts on a network. (Web site)

Protocol

1. It is a distributed protocol that dynamically generates IP multicast delivery trees using a technique called Reverse Path Multicasting.

Internet

1. This RFC defines a model of service for Internet multicasting and proposes an extension to the Internet Protocol (IP) to support such a multicast service.
2. One concept in Internet Multicasting is to use "thresholds" to restrict which multicast datagrams exit a network. (Web site)
3. The gateways use this information, in conjunction with a multicast routing protocol, to support IP multicasting across the Internet.

Address

1. If the given interface does not support IP multicasting, the address(es) will be included in a broadcast Router Advertisement.
2. By default, if the system and given interface support IP multicasting, the address(es) are included in a multicast Router Advertisement.
3. Instead of a Class A, B, or C IP address, multicasting employs a Class D destination address format (224.0.0.0 - 239.255.255.255).

Multicast

1. To provide level 2 multicasting, a host must also support the reception of multicast IP datagrams. (Web site)

Support

1. AAL5 (which is the most common AAL for data) currently does not support interleaving packets, so it does not support multicasting.
2. DHCP can perform all the functions of BOOTP. IGMP - Internet Group Management Protocol used to support multicasting.
3. Class D networks are used to support multicasting.

Full Support

1. Level 2: full support for IP multicasting, allows a host to create, join and leave host groups, as well as send IP datagrams to host groups. (Web site)

Routers

1. DISCUSSION Although [INTERNET:4] is entitled Host Extensions for IP Multicasting, it applies to all IP systems, both hosts and routers.
2. Complications arise when multicasting is extended beyond a single physical network and multicast packets pass through routers. (Web site)
3. When sending to routers connected via networks that support multicasting, the messages should be multicast to address 224.0.0.4. (Web site)

Igmp

1. Multicast routers use the information derived from IGMP, along with a multicast routing protocol, to support IP multicasting across the MBone.
2. The protocol to register host group information is IGMP. IGMP is required on all hosts that support level 2 IP multicasting. (Web site)
3. This is described further in Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP). IGMP and multicasting are defined in RFC 1112 - Host extensions for IP multicasting. (Web site)

Multicasting

1. In some cases, not all routers will be able to understand multicasting, where packets are sent to a network or a group of addresses.
2. Multicast Backbone (MBONE) – A collection of Internet routers that support IP multicasting.
3. The Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) is an Internet layer protocol used for establishing dynamic host groups for IP multicasting. (Web site)

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