CS455 Sylabus
Applications
of IP Tunneling: implement IP multicasting (MBone)
Multicasting
Multicasting:
Multicast
= a
transmission
from a
sender
is
received
by
multiple
receivers
IP-multicasting (multicast tunnels)
IP-multicasting
uses a
special set of IP-addresses
that are
not
assigned to IP-hosts/IP-networks
.
In other words:
Multicast packets
uses a
non-routable
IP address
I.e., the
routing tables
do
not
contain
entries
for
multicast addresses
The
first implementation
of
IP-multicast
uses
IP-tunneling
to
networks
that supported
multicast operation
.
The
overlay
network
that supported
multicast transmission
was known as:
The
MBone
network
Wikipedia
:
click here
The
MBone
is
exactly
the
same concept
as the
IPv6-bone
when
IPv6
was being
deployed
....