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Telematics Chapter 6: Network Layer - Freie Universität Berlin

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IP Multicast<br />

How can a limited group of computers be addressed with something between unicast<br />

and broadcast?<br />

Receiver<br />

Multicast<br />

Sender<br />

Receiver<br />

Transmission to n > 1 selected stations: Multicast<br />

Problems:<br />

� Support of multicast is not compulsory required to be<br />

supported by all devices in IPv4, mandatory in IPv6<br />

� Efficient addressing: how to arrange to reach exactly the<br />

desired devices?<br />

IPv4:<br />

� Use of multicast addresses: Class D addresses, from<br />

224.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255<br />

� Some of them are reserved for certain purposes<br />

(e.g. 224.0.0.2 - all gateways in the subnet)<br />

� Standard IP functionality is enhanced by functions of the<br />

Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) for IPv4<br />

and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6<br />

Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jochen H. Schiller ▪ cst.mi.fu-berlin.de ▪ <strong>Telematics</strong> ▪ <strong>Chapter</strong> 6: <strong>Network</strong> <strong>Layer</strong><br />

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