At the rate the radio industry is going, within 10 years the most common connection on the back of a piece of audio equipment won’t be an analog or digital XLR but an Ethernet RJ-45. Multicast DHCP ...

IPv6 Multicast is a BGP address family (AFI 2, SAFI 2) that enables BGP to carry multicast routing information for IPv6 networks. It provides Reverse Path Forwarding (RPF) information for IPv6 ...

IP multicast is based on the notion of a group. A multicast group identifies a set of receivers who are interested in receiving a particular data stream. This group has no limit: physical or ...

Abstract: IP multicast is an efficient method for distributing multimedia content to a large number of receivers while saving the network bandwidth and reducing processing overhead on the source side.

At last, a small set of unicast addresses have been defined for special use. They do not carry a scope, so they are discussed independently of the other unicast addresses. Two basic addresses carry ...

In this chapter, you will learn about the addressing used in IPv4 and IPv6. We'll assign addresses of both types to various interfaces on the hosts and routers of the Illustrated Network. We'll ...