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Chapter 8

Multicast Addressing

IP Multicast is an excellent example of using IP addresses for special purposes. In fact, apart from the rich IPv6 addressing structure, multicast is probably the most special use of addresses in the IP technology.

Solutions in this chapter:

What is multicast?

Multicast addresses

IP stacks

Why use multicast?

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