Chapter 17. What Is Multicasting?
This chapter covers the following topics:
IP Styles of Addressing—Explains the different delivery mechanisms that may be specified by an IP address (unicast, broadcast, or multicast).
Multicast Addressing—Describes a multicast IP address and the process used to convert a multicast IP to a multicast MAC address.
Current Multicast Usage—Lists some of the ways that multicasts are used and some of the problems that limit the use of multicasting.
Multicast traffic is typically sent by one source and received by a group of recipients that might be spread throughout a network and that might change over time. Examples of multicast traffic include video streams for instruction or entertainment, certain audio conference calls, ...
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