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| | Multicast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Modern multicast algorithms are often capable of combining and managing the first two. | | | There are other kinds of multicast technologies used in the Internet. | | | For both these reasons, and also reasons of economics, IP Multicast is not in general use in the commercial Internet. |
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| | Internet Protocol (IP) Multicast |
| | The simplest form of a multicast distribution tree is a source tree whose root is the source of the multicast tree and whose branches form a spanning tree through the network to the receivers. | | | Multicast packets are replicated in the network by Cisco routers enabled with Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) and other supporting multicast protocols resulting in the most efficient delivery of data to multiple receivers possible. | | | CGMP must be configured both on the multicast routers and on the Layer 2 switches. |
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http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/ipmulti.htm
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| | RFC 1112 (rfc1112) - Host extensions for IP multicasting |
| | The algorithms and protocols used within and between multicast routers are transparent to hosts and will be specified in separate documents. | | | Multicast routers send Queries periodically to refresh their knowledge of memberships present on a particular network. | | | Internetwork forwarding of IP multicast datagrams is handled by "multicast routers" which may be co-resident with, or separate from, internet gateways. |
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http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1112.html
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| | Multicasting (Linktionary term) |
| | The trick to multicasting is that users indicate to their local router that they want to be part of a particular multicast group. | | | In addition, a multicast router can use IGMP to occasionally broadcast a query on a network to determine if any hosts still want to receive broadcasts from the multicast transmitters from which it is accepting packets. | | | DVMRP is used when a router receives a multicast packet and it wants to find out if other multicast routers it has connections to need to receive the packet (that is, they have attached hosts that are members of the group). |
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http://www.linktionary.com/m/multicast.html
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| | ITworld.com - IP Multicast audio primer |
| | The work is done by IP Multicast enabled routers, which send one stream to each router connected to it. | | | Proponents of the technology are making strides to make multicast more widely usable. | | | Since its introduction in 1988, there have been a number of proposals and protocols developed to handle multicast traffic on the network. |
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http://www.itworld.com/Net/3383/NWWipmscript/pfindex.html
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| | Multicast Status Web Page |
| | A basic measure of the size of the Multicast Enabled Internet is given by Figure 1a, which shows the number of address blocks (or prefixes) that have multicast routing as seen from the Multicast Technologies Autonomous System. | | | Occasional rapid drops in the numbers of multicast Autonomous Systems are caused by failure of network links, and this metric has proven useful as an indicator of network problems. | | | Figure 4 shows the relative size of the multicast enabled Internet for both address blocks (or prefixes), and for Autonomous Systems (i.e., the ratio of the number of multicast enabled Autonomous Systems to the total number active), in order to provide two independent estimates for the growth of the multicast enabled Internet. |
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http://www.multicasttech.com/status/index.html
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| | Network Computing Feature Digital Convergence Tutorial: The Wizardry of Multicast Page 1 February 19, 2001 |
| | Multicast routers depend on a group membership protocol, such as IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol), to learn about the hosts connected to the subnets. | | | It's up to the multicast routers to distribute the packets to all members of the group that are downstream. | | | Bandwidth is thus decreased not only at the server, but on the entire network; it's consumed in large quantities only from the multicast routers to the desktop receivers, of which there may be many on the same network. |
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http://www.networkcomputing.com/1204/1204f1c1.html
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| | Cisco - Multicast in a Campus Network: CGMP and IGMP Snooping |
| | The second solution is to use CGMP, which is a Cisco proprietary protocol that runs between the multicast router and the switch. | | | The switch creates a multicast entry for that group and links it to the port on which it has received the report and to all router ports. | | | Host membership queries are sent by the router to the all-multicast address: 224.0.0.1. |
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http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/473/22.html
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| | You might want multicast features, but if your Linux box is not going to act as a multicast router you will probably not want multicast router features included in your new kernel. | | | So, even having a multicast capable router, mrouted can be used to tell it what to do with the datagrams (note I said what, and not how; mrouted says "forward this to the network connected to that interface", but actual forwarding is performed by the kernel). | | | mrouted receives all multicast traffic and, based on that information, computes the multicast routing tables and tells the kernel how to route: "datagrams for this group coming from that interface should be forwarded to those interfaces". |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Multicast-HOWTO
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| | Juniper Networks :: Multicast |
| | Similarly, multicast routers, such as the E-series system, use IGMP to discover which of their hosts belong to multicast groups. | | | PIM: Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) is the protocol that allows multicast routers to identify other multicast routers that should receive packets. | | | Many of the functions available for BGP unicasting are also available for BGP multicasting. |
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http://www.juniper.net/products/eseries/ip_services_multicast.html
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| | BBC - BBC Broadband - Home |
| | Almost all modern computers are capable of receiving multicast. | | | Trials are running to make multicast available for users of all formats, like iTunes and mpeg4. | | | For more information on multicast read our info site here. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/broadband/info/multicast.shtml
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| | Windows Sockets Network Programming: Optional Features |
| | The downside of multicast is that currently multicast-capable routers are relatively rare. | | | The MBONE is a virtual network that allows multicast datagrams to traverse the Internet across non-multicast routers in an IP "tunnel." A special router encapsulates multicast datagrams and sends them as unicast IP datagrams to other special routers, which de-encapsulate them and send them on the local network as standard multicast datagrams. | | | Multicast routers send IGMP "host membership queries" to the all-hosts group periodically to refresh their knowledge of memberships present on a particular network. |
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http://www.sockets.com/ch16.htm
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| | IP Multicast |
| | However, the benefits of multicast are more than just logical: Many underlying transmission media (such as Ethernet) provide support for multicast and broadcast at the hardware and media-acces level. | | | The MTP protocol would be useful for developing applications such as distributed databases which need to be certain that all members of a multicast group agree on which packets have been received. | | | When a multicast service is implemented over such a network, there is a huge improvement in performance: If the hardware supports multicast, A packet which is destined for N recipients can be sent as just a single packet! |
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http://ntrg.cs.tcd.ie/undergrad/4ba2/multicast
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| | NLANR/DAST : Multicast Beacon v1.3 |
| | Multicast is a way of distributing IP packets to a set of machines which have expressed an interest in receiving them. | | | The NLANR/DAST Multicast Beacon is a multicast diagnostic tool written in Perl which uses the RTP protocol (RFC3550) to provide useful statistics and diagnostic information about a given multicast group's connectivity characteristics. | | | The Access Grid is a project led by ANL to implement large-scale distributed collaboration over the network. |
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http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Beacon
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| | Cisco - Basic Multicast Troubleshooting Tools |
| | When you troubleshoot multicast networks, it is good to consider the signaling protocol used in the network and packet flow. | | | This command shows multicast neighbor router information, router capabilities and code version, multicast interface information, TTL thresholds, metrics, protocol, and status. | | | This command shows which multicast groups are directly connected to the router, and which are learned via Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP). |
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http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/105/57.html
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| | SprintLink Multicast |
| | Working closely with Cisco Systems, Sprint has deployed multicast technology to all routers in the IP backbone. | | | A distribution tree is created, allowing many recipients to receive the data without duplicate packets being generated in the network. | | | With the addition of a few statements in their router configuration, SprintLink customers can send and receive multicast traffic. |
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http://www.sprintlink.net/multicast
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| | NLANR/DAST : Multicast Beacon v0.9 FAQ |
| | The Multicast Beacon package is being developed by the NLANR Distribution Application Support Team. | | | Another way is to use the mtrace program. | | | The NLANR/DAST Multicast Beacon home page has the latest Beacon information, software downloads, etc. |
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http://dast.nlanr.net/projects/beacon/beaconfaq.html
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| | Emcast |
| | Switch-trees are peer-to-peer algorithms for building and improving end-host multicast trees. | | | The lead developer is David Helder, a PhD student at U of M. For more information, see the README. | | | It includes the program emcast, a generic multicast utility (like netcat), and the library libemcast, a generic multicast library. |
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http://www.junglemonkey.net/emcast
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| | Multicast routers should not forward any multicast datagram with destination addresses in this range, regardless of its TTL. | | | INTERNET MULTICAST ADDRESSES (last updated 12 January 2006) Host Extensions for IP Multicasting [RFC1112] specifies the extensions required of a host implementation of the Internet Protocol (IP) to support multicasting. | | | [RFC1112] Deering, S., "Host Extensions for IP Multicasting", STD 5, RFC 1112, Stanford University, August 1989. |
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http://www.iana.org/assignments/multicast-addresses
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| | RMTP: A Reliable Multicast Transport Protocol |
| | Reliable Multicast File Transfer Protocol (RMFTP) is an application-level protocol which uses TCP for bi-directional control channels and RMTP for uni-directional data channel. | | | A version of RMTP/UDP/IP implementation is operational in the AT&T switched network which uses only IP-Multicast routers, in contrast to MBone, which uses tunneling. | | | RMTP uses a packet-based selective repeat retransmission scheme for higher throughput. |
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http://www.bell-labs.com/project/rmtp
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| | IP multicast tutorial |
| | As the values of the TTL field increase, routers will expand the number of hops they will forward a multicast packet. | | | This tutorial assumes basic familiarity with the socket programming abstraction found in many variants of the UNIX Operating System. | | | To provide meaningful scope control, multicast routers enforce the following "thresholds" on forwarding based on the TTL field: |
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http://ntrg.cs.tcd.ie/undergrad/4ba2/multicast/antony
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| | You need a multicast capable router, maybe Cisco or Proteon, or a system such as Sun or SGI running mrouted. | | | Allows conference participants to draw on a common object-oriented graphic window. | | | What do I need to do to implement multicast in Linux? |
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http://andrew.triumf.ca/pub/linux/multicast-FAQ
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| | PIM, Protocol Independent Multicast |
| | It essentially stores the state of all multicast distribution trees at that router. | | | The root of a shared multicast distribution tree. | | | Prune messages are used to prevent future messages from propagating to routers without group membership information. |
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http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/pim.htm
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| | MBONE Deployment (mboned) Charter |
| | IP Multicast and Firewalls (RFC 2588) (0 bytes) | | | Source-Specific Protocol Independent Multicast in 232/8 (18258 bytes) | | | IP Multicast Applications: Challenges and Solutions (RFC 3170) (0 bytes) |
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http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/mboned-charter.html
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| | IP Multicast Standards Initiative |
| | Although the driving forces behind IP Multicast realized that reliability was an important problem, they also knew it could be solved. | | | We hope the creators of these important Internet protocols will act more like the Wright Brothers, because secure reliable IP Multicast is too complex to be solved without hands on involvement. | | | Internet users make up their minds about the quality of a website in the blink of an eye, say researchers. |
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http://www.ipmulticast.com
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| | Reliable Multicast Transport (rmt) Charter |
| | The use of Forward Error Correction in Reliable Multicast (RFC 3453) (0 bytes) | | | The Reliable Multicast Design Space for Bulk Data Transfer (RFC 2887) (0 bytes) | | | Reliable Multicast Transport Building Blocks for One-to-Many Bulk-Data Transfer (RFC 3048) (0 bytes) |
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http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/rmt-charter.html
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| | Source-Specific Multicast (SSM) Working Group of the IETF |
| | Present changes to framework document based on input from first meeting. | | | Submit I-D on source-specific multicast to IESG for consideration as an Informational RFC | | | Aug 00 : Submit internet draft describing an end-to-end framework for SSM. |
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http://sith.maoz.com/SSM
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| | Multicast WG Homepage |
| | The Multicast WG is focused on the deployment of one-to-many communication in the Internet2 infrastructure — including backbones, connectors, gigapops, and member institutions. | | | With a stable multicast infrastructure, Internet2 offers its members the opportunity to develop, deploy, test, and use multicast-based applications. |
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http://multicast.internet2.edu
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| | Multicast FAQ File |
| | You will be automatically directed to the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) File for Multicasting |
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http://www.multicasttech.com/multicast_faq.html
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| | SCE: Reliable Multicast Transport Service |
| | Multicast WWW application using the SCE, Clark, R.J. and Ammar M.H., in Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Services in Distributed and Networked Environments (SDNE 95), June, 1995. | | | Rajesh Talpade College of Computing 801 Atlantic Drive Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0280 404 894-6737 E-mail : taddy@cc.gatech.edu | | | Solaris 2.5 based user-level SCE and XFTP code (download instructions). |
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http://www.cc.gatech.edu/computing/Telecomm/playground/SCE/outline.html
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| | What is multicast? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary |
| | Standards are being developed to support multicasting over a TCP/IP network such as the Internet. | | | Teleconferencing and videoconferencing also use multicasting, but require more robust protocols and networks. | | | The terms multicast and narrowcast are often used interchangeably, although narrowcast usually refers to the business model whereas multicast refers to the actual technology used to transmit the data. |
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http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/m/multicast.html
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| | LBNL Audio Conferencing Tool (vat) |
| | Under linux 1.2.x, multicast through the loopback interface does not work. | | | This is a serious deficiency since local (loopback) multicast sockets are used to implement "conference busses" that vat/vic/etc. use to do things like pass the audio hardware between different vats, automatically switch video windows on audio activity, etc. We understand that this problem has been fixed in more recent versions of linux (1.3.?). | | | This won't work at all if the linux loopback multicast is broken.) If your kernel has the bug, it will be difficult to handle multiple vats and you will probably want to run just one at a time. |
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http://www-nrg.ee.lbl.gov/vat
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| | Session 1: Reliable Multicast Protocols |
| | these pages are from the morning session on reliable multicast protocols held at the ACM SIGCOMM Multicast Workshop, August 27, 1996, Stanford University, Stanford CA. | | | MiMaze -- a distributed game using the MBone, C. Diot and M. Ammar. | | | The five items above were the slides presented in the morning session, which focussed specificall on reliable multicast. |
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http://gaia.cs.umass.edu/sigcomm_mcast
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| | Multicast Workshop at University of Oregon |
| | PIM-SM (Protocol Independent Multicast - sparse mode) used to propagate forwarding state between routers. | | | SSM (Source Specific Multicast) utilizes a subset of PIM's functionality to guaranty source-only trees in the 232/8 range. | | | Each team will have a mix of 3 routers and over the course of the workshop teams will configure their own network, inter-connect with the other teams, and then attach to the UO/Internet2 connected network. |
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http://multicast.internet2.edu/workshops/workshop-oregon-200206.shtml
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| | IP Multicast - Cisco Systems |
| | Applications that take advantage of multicast technologies include video conferencing, corporate communications, distance learning, and distribution of software, stock quotes, and news. | | | IP Multicast is a bandwidth-conserving technology that reduces traffic by simultaneously delivering a single stream of information to thousands of corporate recipients and homes. | | | Review additional information about IP Multicast in the Technical Support site area. |
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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6552/products_ios_technology_home.html
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| | About webcast |
| | 20-31 March - implement multicast of whole documents, including inlined objects. | | | 1-28 February - work on implementing cciShare function (multicasting URLs) using RMP. | | | Make it so that if CCI sendAnchor is enabled, and the application does a get, the anchor is not sent in this case. |
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http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/XMosaic/CCI/webcast.html
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| | Multicast Software Download |
| | If you need installation instructions you should look at Joel Jaeggli's | | | This page has links to software for viewing or sourcing multicast content. | | | Last modified: Thu Sep 7 10:16:20 PDT 2000 |
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http://videolab.uoregon.edu/download.html
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| | multicast - a Whatis.com definition |
| | Multicast is also used for programming on the MBone, a system that allows users at high-bandwidth points on the Internet to receive live video and sound programming. | | | Multicast is supported through wireless data networks as part of the Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) technology. | | | Together with anycast and unicast, multicast is one of the packet types in the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6). |
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http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci212610,00.html
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| | MultiCast Entertainment |
| | They united around the computers of technology whiz kid Makonnen Blake Hannah, who acts as digital music producer to create, play and record their original compositions. | | | Each of MultiCast Entertainment’s multi-talented young artists brings an individual style of song concept and performance to the mix; they then work together to inspire each other and to cross-fertilize their musical output through the incorporation of all forms of audio-visual technology. | | | Post-production of their digital music is done at Steelie and Clevie's STUDIO 2000 in New Kingston. |
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http://www.geocities.com/siliconisland2k2
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| | the internet multicast backbone |
| | The MBone is an experimental framework for developing and refining multicast protocols and applications on the Internet. | | | Even on LANs, broadcasts are often undesirable because they require all machines to perform some processing in order to determine whether or not they are interested in the broadcast data. | | | Under the multicast model on a WAN, only hosts that are actively interested in a particular multicast service will have such data routed to them; this restricts bandwidth consumption to the link between the originator and the receiver of multicast data. |
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http://www.serpentine.com/~bos/tech/mbone
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| | Adaptive File Distribution Protocol |
| | An Adaptive Multicast Data Distribution Protocol by J. Cooperstock and S. Kotsopoulos. | | | As the group grows, AFDP may switch to either multicast (if all the hosts and networks support it) or broadcast (if all the hosts are on the same LAN). | | | This dynamic selection is based on easily adjusted tuning parameters, and is not supported by any other protocol we know of. |
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http://www.ecf.toronto.edu/afdp
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| | Multicast |
| | This section contains a list of common multicast addresses. | | | Multicast addresses are in the range 224.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255. |
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http://www.iss.net/security_center/advice/Exploits/Ports/Multicast
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| | Multicast Tools |
| | The most commonly used multicast troubleshooting show ip commands are: show ip mroute |
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http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/%7Ellynch/calendar/tools.html
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| | Multicast Events |
| | If you would like to recieve announcements as they are posted to the list, | | | The Access Grid Multicast Beacon page & point to point Beacon data | | | The list archive is sorted by reverse date |
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http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/%7Ellynch/calendar
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| | ICC: Recent Projects |
| | CCIP Multicast and UOS by Carl Timm and Jeff Witkowski, 2002. | | | OCP: Oracle9I DBA Fundamentals I Study Guide by Biju Thomas, 2002. |
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http://www.iccorp.com/recent.html
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| | index |
| | Todd Montgomery maintains a useful set of Reliable Multicast links | | | Seventh RMRG Meeting held in Reston, VA, Nov 4-5, 1999 |
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http://www.east.isi.edu/RMRG
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