February 2000
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
15h 57m
English
Content preview from Internet Core Protocols: The Definitive GuideBecome an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
Start your free trial
Multicasting and IGMP in Action
As far as IP is concerned, multicast datagrams are virtually indistinguishable from other forms of IP traffic. The only way to tell a multicast IP datagram apart from a unicast or broadcast IP datagram is the fact that the destination IP address of the IP datagram that is carrying the multicast data has a Class D address in the range of 224.0.0.0 through 239.255.255.255.