Illustrated TCP/IP
by Matthew G. Naugle Wiley Computer Publishing, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN: 0471196568 Pub Date: 11/01/98 |
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As noted from the slide, multicast is one stream of packets that is heard by many receivers all using the same IP multicast address as their receiving IP interface. IP multicast places the burden of packet replication on the network via the IP multicast address and routers that are able to forward received multicast packets to more than one port.
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