unicast
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... group with the same "best-efforts"
reliability as regular unicast IP datagrams, i.e., the datagram is
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... IP datagrams are sent using the same "Send IP" operation
used to send unicast IP datagrams; an upper-layer protocol module
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... multicast router), multicasts should be transmitted
exactly like unicasts. For a store-and-forward network like the
ARPANET ...
... upper-layer protocol
modules using the same "Receive IP" operation as normal, unicast
datagrams. Selection of a destination ...
... module using the same "Receive Local" operation as local network
unicast packets. To allow the IP module to tell the local network
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... IP datagrams will arrive as
local network unicasts, so no change to the local network module
should be necessary.
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... hosts may be
considered a generalization of the binding of IP unicast addresses.
An IP unicast ...
... IP unicast addresses.
An IP unicast address is statically bound to a single local network
interface on a single IP network ...
... host group address is NOT
bound to a set of IP unicast addresses. The multicast routers do not
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