On May 6, 8:25am, Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote:
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} It does help to have the option of copy and pasting from one's current
} work! ;-)
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} A few people have asked, and I responded a couple times, but I think they
} all got filtered (hmm what does that mean?), but I am working on a new
book
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- about multicast address! [7:29057]
And you probably also meant to say that the MAC header only has room for
one data-link-layer address also. So the IP multicast address is converted
to a single MAC multicast address.
Applications on end systems register with the NIC to receive packets
addressed
of post is a preview of the
sequel to Top Down Network Design, right?
Elmer
-Original Message-
From: Priscilla Oppenheimer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 9:18 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Correction - about multicast address! [7:29057]
And you probably
Reding this over I realize that I should have explained a little better...
What I should have said is An IP header only has room for one destination
address, therefore a MAC must be manufactured for the group rather than a
specific device so that the layer-2 protocol (ethernet, token-ring, etc.)
And you probably also meant to say that the MAC header only has room for
one data-link-layer address also. So the IP multicast address is converted
to a single MAC multicast address.
Applications on end systems register with the NIC to receive packets
addressed to particular multicast
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