CCNP and CCIE Enterprise Core ENCOR 350-401 Official Cert Guide, 2nd Edition

Chapter 13

Multicast

This chapter covers the following subjects:

• Multicast Fundamentals: This section describes multicast concepts as well as the need for multicast.

• Multicast Addressing: This section describes the multicast address scopes used by multicast to operate at Layer 2 and Layer 3.

• Internet Group Management Protocol: This section explains how multicast receivers join multicast groups to start receiving multicast traffic using IGMPv2 or IGMPv3. It also describes how multicast flooding on Layer 2 switches is prevented using a feature called IGMP snooping.

• Protocol Independent Multicast: This section describes the concepts, operation, and features of PIM. PIM is the protocol used to route multicast traffic across network segments from ...