This document provides an overview of IP multicast, including key concepts, protocols, and technologies. It begins with an introduction to multicast networking and then covers topics such as multicast addressing, group membership discovery protocols, multicast routing protocols, interdomain routing, and the multicast data plane. The document aims to guide readers who are familiar with unicast but new to multicast by comparing different approaches and focusing on commonly used protocols like PIM-SM.
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IP Multicast Explained
1. IP Multicast Explained
Jon Hardwick, jon.hardwick@metaswitch.com
First issued June 2004
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