Multicast address
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multicast-address-204-16856616
title:
Multicast address
text:
A multicast address is a logical identifier for a group of hosts in a computer network that are available to process datagrams or frames intended to be multicast for a designated network service. Multicast addressing can be used in the link layer, such as Ethernet multicast, and at the internet layer for Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) or Version 6 (IPv6) multicast.
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Logical identifier addressing a specific group of devices on a network
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast_address
date created:
2002-02-25T15:51:15Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T09:58:33Z
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