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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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2.9 IPv6 Multicast Forwarding Cache 165
487–497 The multicast interface index specified by the application is validated. An error of
EINVAL is returned if the index is out of range. The index refers to an entry in the multicast
interface table, and the statistics from this entry are copied into the storage provided by
the application.
2.9 IPv6 Multicast Forwarding Cache
Since the routing mechanism for multicast is different from that for unicast in that it is
based on both the source address (for RPF) and the destination group address, a separate
data structure is used to store IPv6 multicast forwarding information, called the multicast for-
warding
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ISBN: 9780080489308