January 2008
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
14h 16m
English
Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista support IP multicast sending, receiving, and forwarding through the TCP/IP protocol and, for Windows Server 2008, the Routing and Remote Access service.
TCP/IP for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista supports IP multicast traffic in the following ways:
To support host reception of IP multicast traffic, TCP/IP for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista is an IGMPv1, IGMPv2, and IGMPv3-capable host.
To support host transmission and reception of IP multicast traffic, TCP/IP for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista supports the mapping of IP multicast addresses to MAC addresses for Ethernet network adapters as described in this chapter. For Token Ring ...