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IPv6 Advanced Protocols Implementation
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IPv6 Advanced Protocols Implementation

by Qing Li, Jinmei Tatuya, Keiichi Shima
July 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1008 pages
35h 43m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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120 Chapter 2—IPv6 Multicasting
2.4 Multicast Routing Fundamentals
Routing and forwarding in multicast are quite different from unicast. First, since there are
typically multiple recipients of a single original packet, the packet’s delivery path has many
branches, making the entire path a distribution tree. Secondly, unlike unicast routing, the source
address information has an important role in forwarding multicast packets. Additionally, behav-
ior of receiving nodes directly affects routing information via the host-to-router protocol such
as MLD.
This section provides a brief overview of the general background of multicast routing,
and gives an introduction ...
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ISBN: 9780080489308