IP datagram
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... reliability as regular unicast IP datagrams, i.e., the datagram is
not guaranteed to arrive intact at all members of the destination ...
... Level 1: support for sending but not receiving multicast IP
datagrams.
Level 1 allows a host ...
... IP implementation must
support the transmission of multicast IP datagrams. To support level
2 IP multicasting, a host ...
... host must also support the reception of
multicast IP datagrams. Each of these two new services is described
in a separate section, below. For each service ...
... SENDING MULTICAST IP DATAGRAMS ...
... IP" operation
used to send unicast IP datagrams; an upper-layer protocol module
merely specifies an IP ...
... time-to-live, it should
default to 1 for all multicast IP datagrams, so that an explicit
choice is required to multicast beyond a single network ...
...
To support the sending of multicast IP datagrams, the IP module must
be extended to recognize IP ...
... interface is required to
support the sending of multicast IP datagrams. The IP module merely
specifies an IP ...
... destination field of Ethernet
packets. All that is needed to support the sending of multicast IP
datagrams is a procedure for mapping IP host group addresses ...
... way as Ethernet for the purpose of sending multicast IP datagrams.
For a network that supports broadcast ...
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Incoming multicast IP datagrams are received by upper-layer protocol
modules using the same "Receive IP ...
...
To support the reception of multicast IP datagrams, the IP module
must be extended to maintain a list of host ...
...
To support the reception of multicast IP datagrams, an Ethernet
module must be able to receive packets addressed to the Ethernet ...
... Ethernet for the purpose of receiving multicast IP
datagrams. For pure broadcast networks, such as the Experimental ...
... specification. IGMP messages are encapsulated in IP datagrams, with
an IP protocol number of 2. All IGMP messages ...
... destination address field of multicast IP datagrams. However, the
fact that group addresses are location-independent (they are not
...
... group actually contains more than
one host. For instance, the IP datagram reassembly algorithm relies
on every host ...