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... hosts identified by a single IP
destination address. A multicast datagram is delivered to all
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... multicast datagram is delivered to all
members of its destination host group with the same "best-efforts"
reliability ...
... IP datagrams, i.e., the datagram is
not guaranteed to arrive intact at all members of the destination
group or in the same order relative to other datagrams ...
... network multicast which reaches all immediately-neighboring
members of the destination host group. If the datagram has an IP ...
... network take responsibility for forwarding it towards all other
networks that have members of the destination group. On those other
member networks ...
... datagrams can easily be identified by the presence of a class D IP
address in their destination address field; they should be quietly
discarded by hosts that do not support IP multicasting ...
... group address, rather than an individual
IP address, as the destination. However, a number of extensions may
be necessary or desirable.
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... destination, rather than an individual IP
destination, when it invokes the existing "Send Local" operation.
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... multicast packets
by allowing multicast addresses in the destination field of Ethernet
packets. All that is needed to support the sending of multicast IP
datagrams ...
... unicast
datagrams. Selection of a destination upper-layer protocol is based
on the protocol field ...
... on the protocol field in the IP header, regardless of the destination
IP address. However, before any datagrams destined to a particular
group ...
... source address field is
quietly discarded. An ICMP error message (Destination Unreachable,
Time Exceeded, Parameter Problem, Source Quench, or Redirect) is
never generated in response to a datagram ...
... checksum and have an IP destination address of 224.0.0.1.
A single Query applies to all memberships on the
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